Guild Wars 2

If you do run pistol, combo’ing it with Chaos storm is amazing. Most people don’t realize just how heavily 8-11 stacks of confusion will lock people down.

Yotes are back

Xcom.1926:

No offense, but opinion of T1 doesn’t count on this subject. When you are getting destroyed like ET is at the moment and when the dominant team holds the orbs. You just quit WvW and go to sleep.

In T1 every little point my count, but not in most match-ups.

No you don’t, you got to the middle and stomp people. THEN you go cry your self to sleep.

Jscull.2514:

Now we need all you roamed to start organizing 5-8 mans and stop relying on 15. Then it’ll get nasty in these ruins… 5 or 6 5-8 man teams running through there looking to wallop each other. Much better direction then dueling and setting up fights. Roam around find them, win them.

Yes please.

5k Damage and 5 stacks of confusion (1.1k condi damage with no might) on interrupt

Shut down builds are fun

Engineer and mesmer (When played at high levels) are two of the least passive classes in the game.

Some guildies and I ran over to the Coyote area, stood around like idiots for a few seconds, until someone finally asked the obvious question, “Where the kitten are the coyotes?”

Magnetron.5823:

GvG is something what bad Spvp players created.

I don’t even know what to say to that LOL.

I run Zerker Helm/Shoulders, Clerics chest/legs, and Assassin’s gloves/boots.

I run some Valkyrie accessories/weapons, so I needed extra crit%, and it was a nice way to acquire it without sacrificing too much.

3/4 zerker 1/4 cleric ranger w/ Sword/Dagger and GS and no support utilities.

Bump. These all seem solid, and I’m not even an ele.

Mrbig.8019:

K U T M.4539:

ripman.4571:

So you accept the rest and your problem is the guardian, right. Even if no guardian has that much hp (honest mistake) a d/p thief cant kill bunker guardian, and can not kill a dps guardian unless the guardian desides to pick up a fight. Lets say taht the thief initiates the burst which is 10k dmg if backstab crits lightning procs and steal deals sth like 2k dmg. Guardian can then pop shield, blocks, aegis or whatever he has and run away, heal. Where is the problem?

So a guardian builds so he won’t die and has next to no DPS unless you spam one while he has retal up.

SHOULD you be able to kill him?

Yes.

There are many builds which can easily kill a guardian 1vs1.

Necro
Engi
Ranger
Shatter mesmer.
War.

D/P thief was able to do it pre-nerf. S/D thief was able to do it pre-dec nerf.

The only classes who are now not able to do it are thieves ( unless you fight for an hour against him with S/D) and eles ( unless you fight for an hour against him and land ALL your bursts: probably a fresh air build could be able to do it, never really tested it).

I wasn’t serious about that, of course people can kill bunkers. So can D/P thieves. Most just aren’t patient enough for it, and a big majority of them don’t know how to keep up sustained damage.

ripman.4571:

So you accept the rest and your problem is the guardian, right. Even if no guardian has that much hp (honest mistake) a d/p thief cant kill bunker guardian, and can not kill a dps guardian unless the guardian desides to pick up a fight. Lets say taht the thief initiates the burst which is 10k dmg if backstab crits lightning procs and steal deals sth like 2k dmg. Guardian can then pop shield, blocks, aegis or whatever he has and run away, heal. Where is the problem?

So a guardian builds so he won’t die and has next to no DPS unless you spam one while he has retal up.

SHOULD you be able to kill him?

Banzie.5248:

We held a quaggan memorial service today on Isle Of Janthir

I suddenly like you guys more

ripman.4571:

So lets see, you rly think taht thief can one shot ppl right now? especially d/p build.
Backstab dmg agaisnt warrior,guardian is 5k at best, both of em have sth like 20k hp.
Agaisnt engis,rangers is sth like 7k, i dont think i need to say anything about rangers. Against engis d/p thief has equal chances.
Necros…..nuff said. Mesmers are out of meta so it does not make a difference if they get owned by d/p or s/d and eles can beat d/p if played correctly.
But all of these classes (except mesmers) have some form of invulnerability which helps em avoid being BSed, so where is your problem agaisnt d/p thieves?
Stealth? Why do you feel the need to cry so much about it? Use AoE and the thief will run away, yes you wont kill him but you will be able to capture the node and he will just run away being useless. Grow up ppl. Yes back in 2012 bs builds were broken but now they are just fine, just out of condi meta.

What Guardian has 20k hp?

Can’t really give it a full overview atm, but “Phantasmal Strength” is more beneficial in phantasm power builds than condi builds.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Coulter.2315:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

Shukran.4851:

Deimos Tel Arin.7391 unreal tournament or quake should be your game. glhf

i want guild wars 2 quake style thanks

Dragon Bash Arena?

yes, but i want
to choose my own locations (any map in the game, then draw boundary lines to focus on a particular area)
make it free for all arena
use pve or pvp gear
additional custom rules etc
spawn weapons, power ups, etc.
custom skill sets etc
custom everything.

etc etc

the current custom arena is not much custom at all at the moment.

Yeah, that’s what the pvp community needs! More minigames!

ElQuebecois.4691:

Leuca.5732:

ElQuebecois.4691:

cheshirefox.7026:

cuz they are too weak to pull back the string.. b’doom cheee >_>

can you write this in english please?

Can you capitalize the first letter of your sentence please? Don’t forget to capitalize the first letter of proper nouns as well.

it’s not a matter of gramar syntax and all, it’s a matter i didn’t understand what he write.

Soeki.9643:

ElQuebecois.4691:

yes, and? it’S not like if you can use them all in a single fight since you can only use 2 weapon, and as an elementaliste, i prefer to focus on frost skill (water if you prefer) making in sort i don’t really use the others element.

If you are focusing on a single element you are limiting the potential of your elementalist by a great deal. And as it has been said before, if you want a longbow, just conjure one, it is even a frost one, your favourite element.

More weapons will be added later on, it has been confirmed. (As a side note, I’d rather see rifle added before longbow, focusing on long range, single target, high damage)

can you tell me how we can conjure a frost bow? i haven’t seen anything like that… i’m new to this game.

It’s a utility skill.

Chorazin.4107:

Player Character.9467:

K U T M.4539:

Red Falcon.8257:

How can people still be this uninformed on classes?

Ele’s mobility was nerfed because Ele can bunker.
Bunker+Mobility = no. Infact Guards/Necros have poor mobility too.

Warriors cannot bunker in the slightest, just like Thieves, so they rely on speed.
If they nerf War’s mobility, then War should be able to bunker.
And believe me you’d hate that a lot more than a runaway Warrior.

They’re probably one of the best bunkers in the game atm…

No protection, no regen unless you engage on their essentially stationary banner, using burst skills to cleanse conditions is blocked by blind and removes adrenal health when successful, successful bunker build highly vulnerable to poison or burst power pressure.

No regen? Healing signet is around 400+ a tick, DM procs regen for 3 seconds every 10 seconds. No protection sure, but you are still rocking 25-30k HP’s, 2200+toughness and 3500 armour. On top of this you have 2 endure pains, 1 as a skill slot and 1 at 25% health(traited) and you have a Dolyak signet to slot to increase toughness. You can slot the shield for 3 seconds of blocking(in addition to your 8 seconds worth of endure pain).

How are you vulnerable to poison? Melandru, Lemongrass, DM is 98% condition duration reduction.

Pretty much this. I always run Melandru/Lemongrass. I don’t know what you’re doing if you’re not, but it’s probably wrong.

TGSlasher.1458:

Then there’s the fact it has no secondary effect like Ride The Lightning (I’ll take a knockback that forces you to wait for the animation to finish before stun breaking any day).

The knockback doesn’t come from RTL.

Player Character.9467:

K U T M.4539:

Red Falcon.8257:

How can people still be this uninformed on classes?

Ele’s mobility was nerfed because Ele can bunker.
Bunker+Mobility = no. Infact Guards/Necros have poor mobility too.

Warriors cannot bunker in the slightest, just like Thieves, so they rely on speed.
If they nerf War’s mobility, then War should be able to bunker.
And believe me you’d hate that a lot more than a runaway Warrior.

They’re probably one of the best bunkers in the game atm…

No protection, no regen unless you engage on their essentially stationary banner, using burst skills to cleanse conditions is blocked by blind and removes adrenal health when successful, successful bunker build highly vulnerable to poison or burst power pressure.

0/10/30/30/0

Adrenal health, healing signet, banner regen. Just carrying the banner around will give you access to high swiftness uptime and stack silly amounts of regen on you. With the banner recharge trait you can maintain it all times. 3600+ armor and 1k+ Healing power is no joke, easily 900 hp/s with burst heals. You can run this as a condi build, or a pure dd bunker.

Blocking with shield stance nets you 2.7k + health.

Cleansing ire, zerker stance, and signet of stamina give you great condition mitigation. Warhorn if you want more.

Think of it like having a rangers troll unguent heal, but permanent and with a burst heal.

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Well, back to PvP.

Red Falcon.8257:

How can people still be this uninformed on classes?

Ele’s mobility was nerfed because Ele can bunker.
Bunker+Mobility = no. Infact Guards/Necros have poor mobility too.

Warriors cannot bunker in the slightest, just like Thieves, so they rely on speed.
If they nerf War’s mobility, then War should be able to bunker.
And believe me you’d hate that a lot more than a runaway Warrior.

They’re probably one of the best bunkers in the game atm…

I run a mix of apoth/settler’s in wvw. Sword Dagger + Axe Torch.

Still viable. Can’t say I’ve lost a 1v1 more than once to the same person. Either a win or a stalemate.

Pretty good small man roaming, good support through healing spring, condi removal signet, and condi removal/rezzes on the elite.

If you run those and Empathetic Bond, you should pretty much never die to a condition build ever.

Sucks for zerging.

RIP GvG.

My guild Basic [BS] only took part in 3 rated GvG matches, but I’ve got to say they were some of the best fights I’ve had.

See you all in ESO/Unchained.

What I find silly is that 400-500 in 2 professions cost me more in mats and gold than craft leveling a character did pre-patch.

He probably leveled.

So inc new warrior build (Or modified old build, I guess)

Full Dire armor/weps. Apoth accessories. Healing signet Sword/Sword + Longbow

Those will be lots of fun to fight!

…

IGN: By The Night

I play WvW and PvP. I also farm PvE for moneys. (500g in 3 days from living story farming is OP)

Role: Tester

Hey Carp, Shoes here. ^ Is right about HT/MK.

You also have condi removal through the elixir gun, by shooting the fifth skill at your feet, you remove 1-2 conditions (Not mentioned on the tooltip, but it works). This and Fumigate give decent group condi removal. Bringing HT would definitely bump up the condi removal slightly, but if Med kit works for you, go with that.

Could also get Melandru runes and -Condi duration food to help mitigate conditions. (-Condi duration is actually far superior to +Condi duration, but you would lose out on damage there)

Tribio.8531:

No spoilers and no exploit btw, thief is working as intended..

Crimson Magdelana.9024:

WarLord.8430:

No one from IoM jumped into any gvg.. we came there to watch and we made it clear to stay out of the fight and no one from IoM jumped into the gvg, we came there to watch HARD because you guys were the ones that challenged us last night and said today and yet you guys decided to play BS so we came to spectate dont call us out on some bs when you honestly must not know.

Mind your words hero. Video soon. Not only was it streamed, but it was recorded as well. It wasn’t the whole guild of course. Just a few. But enough to affect the outcome nonetheless.

GG BS. You guys were a blast to fight. The Lines and conditions were crazy.

It was a necro from GDC who jumped into the fight that round. A few IoM members came in to rez at some points, but I don’t remember seeing them actually attack anyone from HARD.

E: You guys were definitely our best fight so far! Props to your entire guild, mate.

On ET, and most of the servers we fight against, we usually have an organized fight club every Thursday at one of the windmills, typically the green windmill. A lot of random ones happen throughout the week as well.

I don’t know if it’s only common on lower tier servers, but I can say that sort of thing happens fairly often.

Darek.1836:

the only time I’ve seen BS this matchup was a few days back. they run apothecary bomb engi, apothecary warr, and another tanky DD warr shrug

Apoth engi mains a guardian.

Apoth warrior mains a guardian.

None of our other warriors are tanky.

Roaming? Small man? Zerg?

Set your main kit swap to what your weapon swap on other classes would be.

Kain’s OBEY warriors seem to have mastered the art of running away. Pretty impressive, really.

The blurred frenzy change was a while back…

Tolmos.8395:

K U T M.4539:

I have a Logitech G600 and a Razer Nostromo

Weapon skills 12345
Heal Q
Utilities SHIFT + B, 6, 8,
Elite 9

Toolbelt, M4, M3, M5, =

Move 03, 07, 08, 09, E (Effectively WASDE)

Tab is for Combat Mode

Next Target is C, Call target is SHIFT + =

Jump is Left Alt

Loot is F, AoE loot is SHIFT + F

(Note: 1-0 are the first 10 buttons on the side of my mouse, – = are the last two on the side, M3/M4/M5 are pressing down, left, and right on the scroll wheel of the mouse, and SHIFT + B is the button behind the scroll wheel)

What the holy crap? It’s like you went out of your way to spread your hotkeys all over the place so it would look like you are playing the piano while playing GW2 =D Most people try to cram all their hotkeys into 1 section of the keyboard so they don’t have to move their hand around… you specifically set yours up all over the place so you DO. =D

This setup made me chuckle.

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-nostromo?src=pgm.80082300&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=razernostromo&utm_campaign=adwordsusbrandkeyboardsnostromo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826104674&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Mice-_-N82E16826104674&gclid=COXG_7b18bgCFRFp7AodpxsAfQ

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I play on these, and barely touch the keyboard. However, when I was playing SCII, I didn’t have either of those, and it WAS like I was playing the piano or typing out an essay whenever I played haha

You know you can change the keybinds, right?

M/S + GS w/ healing signet, Doly signet, zerker stance

yw

Yes it does.

/15

I have a Logitech G600 and a Razer Nostromo

Weapon skills 12345
Heal Q
Utilities SHIFT + B, 6, 8,
Elite 9

Toolbelt, M4, M3, M5, =

Move 03, 07, 08, 09, E (Effectively WASDE)

Tab is for Combat Mode

Next Target is C, Call target is SHIFT + =

Jump is Left Alt

Loot is F, AoE loot is SHIFT + F

(Note: 1-0 are the first 10 buttons on the side of my mouse, – = are the last two on the side, M3/M4/M5 are pressing down, left, and right on the scroll wheel of the mouse, and SHIFT + B is the button behind the scroll wheel)

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

K U T M.4539:

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

I’m confused what are we talking about?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Distracting_Strikes

Sorry I was a bit distracted, what does this have to do with a rune?

ha

WhiteAndMilky.2514:

I’m confused what are we talking about?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Distracting_Strikes

JEFFARR.8163:

Wait!!!! Do engineers have torment now??
Cause if so that would be amazing

No but lol, look. Med Kit is a heal slot skill that you can swap to at will.

In theory, you should be putting 2 stacks of torment on people everytime you swap to med kit.

Zypher.7609:

K U T M.4539:

10/10/20/30/0

Incendiary powder, Pistol CD reduction, Stabilized Armor, Shield CD, Fast acting Elixirs or Self regulation defenses, Cleaning Formula 409, and HGH

P/S, Full Rabid armor, mix of rabid and apothecary accessories.

What utilities do you use with that build?

Tool kit, Elixir B and Elixir S, the healing elixir, and supply crate.

Build is mainly for solo/small man roaming.

10/10/20/30/0

Incendiary powder, Pistol CD reduction, Stabilized Armor, Shield CD, Fast acting Elixirs or Self regulation defenses, Cleaning Formula 409, and HGH

P/S, Full Rabid armor, mix of rabid and apothecary accessories.

WvW wise, in zergs…we’re ‘okay’. That is to say, We have a lot of hard cc, but it’s easily countered by stability. A lot of zergball guilds don’t even recruit medium armor classes, excepting for sometimes thieves.
Solo, in the hands of a skilled player, engineer’s are God-tier, up there with mesmers and thieves. There’s a much higher skillfloor/skill ceiling for the class, but it’s very rewarding.

For PvP, Engineer is extremely good. The condi pressure, survivability, and access to combo fields and kitten tons of blast finishers make us amazing for small scale combat.

I carry around 2 full sets of armor and three sets of accessories, a rabid set, a set that’s a mix of knights/zerkers/cavaliers, and a set of Apothecary accessories. Now, that’s only because I enjoy two widely different styles of play on engineer, DPS based and Condi based. (The apothecary accessories are just when I feel I need more tankiness when running condi, and switch to a few or all of those accessories idly).
If you get a set of power and a set of condi armor that you feel works well for you, you won’t need kittentons of different armor sets to fit certain utilities.
This is mainly because Engineer builds, even moreso than most classes, are highly dependent on traits.

PvE wise I have no idea. I’ve done VERY little PvE on my engineer, just because I’m not a fan of this games PvE, personally.

Engi has just about the most access to hard cc in the game. Rifle, shield, ft, big ol bomb, tool kit, turrets when traited, etc. We also have blocks (Shield, Tool kit), projectile reflection from shield, access to tons of blast finishers and a good amount of water/smoke/fire fields for healing, stealth, or might.

As an engineer, you have to try a bit harder to get the same effects other classes can get by utilizing all your combo fields effectively, and timing your cc/blocks/invulns.