Guild Wars 2

I use a logitech G600, which is honestly way too many buttons, but it’s nice having a variety of options whenever I redo my keybinds.

Lithril Ashwalker.6230:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Danicia, please tell the Devs that the weapons need moar hearts. My manly, bulky, mustached norn isn’t complete unless he’s surrounded by hearts. Princess Wand was a start. Heart weapons are a nice addition. Heart ARMOR is next!!!

My good sir, you remind me of this.

May you sparkle!

+1

Viking Jorun.5413:

Ghorman.1368:

I drop a cow on everyone I see!!!!

Shark Finisher + Toy Spider Tonic is eons better (freaking megalodon eating your opponent).

Someone did that in wvw the other day, it was glorious.

Adding a hammer to any of the other classes requires more work simply do to the way juggernaut works.

Nikkinella.8254:

Or even better, finally allow eles and engis the ability to swap weapons in combat.

the combosssssssssssssssssssss

hey lets just kill engis more in pve

3k hours 6k achieves.

too much pvp/wvw :s

Ele steal is kinda ridiculous too. 10 sec chill lolll

Hello all! Been playing around with D/D Ele in pvp and have a fairly simple question for you all.

I run Zephyr’s Boon and Elemental Shielding with a Boon Duration setup (50% Boon duration, 65% protection duration) and was wondering if it was worth using the fire field -> Leap combo finisher to proc Fire Aura, which does activate both traits, or if I should save my immobilize

Typically, I use Burning Speed + Lightning Flash -> Ring Of Fire -> Earth Swap -> Dodge in earth -> Magnetic Grasp -> Earthquake -> Magnetic Leap as my main burst rotation (I typically try to save RTL for gap closing and Updraft to use as an interrupt or to set up burst if Lightning Flash is on CD).

Am just curios as it’s a combo I don’t see used a lot by d/d eles, and if there was some reason it’s typically not used.

Thanks in advance for information, and any other tips are welcome.

yLoon.5289:

Razor.9132:

It’s hot-join, no one cares. It’s for lulz and people go there to kill, not play objectives. Think of it like random arenas of GW2.

Grabbing candies from a baby is fun for you?
Losing is part of the fun for you?

My point is, a Good Game/Fun Game should be consisted of 2 teams of players at the same par of playing level/experience. We feel accomplished and that’s part of the fun! Not thrashing newbies. If this persist to continue for a long term without any remedies from arena, PvP would ultimately meet its impending doom i dare to say.

Well i care =), for the newbies as well.
Meanwhile entertain yourself with another screenshot. I’m pretty sure that rank 42 wasn’t having any fun at all in his losing team.

Slaughtmaker was probably enjoying himself.

Zenith.6403:

ParaldaWind.4523:

It’s been explained a million times. Anything a ranger can do another class can do better.

- Do tell me what other class can comfortably go full offensive stats on gear and deliver damage spikes from 1500 range.

Engi says hello. Also aoe<3

RocSteady.9784:

K U T M.4539:

I don’t think anyone would care about your current build if you didn’t use perplexity.

Problem solved!!!!!!
So let all voluntary refrain ourselves to not use perplexity for the sake of being called cheese and to have a fair fight.
Bravo

Perplexity isn’t fun to fight against, isn’t fun to play, and doesn’t help you improve as a player. So…why bother?

I don’t think anyone would care about your current build if you didn’t use perplexity.

Natsu Dragneel.1625:

fighting 2 bunker guardians and a d/d power ele is a pain to say the least, especially when they just spam endless condition clense

I’m sure they really enjoyed fighting you

The 5 point minor trait “Justice is blind” is actually pretty kitten good for solo roaming, due to the ability to stomp.

Vuh.1328:

Yeah engis are quite op when they can use 2 sets of utilities and 2 sets of gear at the same time and possibly 80 more trait points :/

Yes, it’s getting out of hand.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQJAoYhEmkbwx5wjEAEFucyoQIiCPUekzM2A-jEEBoLA4LgEEgEBApqERrJQglhBpqJsVXRTtATXCSZKx6TAKVoeDBynYZ1SBY1WA-w

Just changed the cele pieces out.

kyubi.3620:

pet already scale with condition damage… run a darn cat and give it the bleed on crit and its damage will be increased. Preventing pet power scaling and limiting its stat to condition damage is simply like saying that they want us to run condi bunk when using pet to begin with!

Well i happen to like glass cannon condition build and glass cannon physical build so running condi bunk is kind of out of my mind. + the fact bunkers are an issue in this game could be helped by making it impossible to Bunk Petburst anymore by using scaling.

It doesn’t scale with condi damage, you can just give it 350 condi damage.

Can give it more condi damage with Companions Might rofl.

Looks pretty solid. Might recommend swapping Renewed Justice for Elusive Power (25 in Honor) or Unscathed Contender (I, Virtues) though.

Gallrvaghn.4921:

Fire Shield
Elementalist, Any class with Leap Combo Finisher on Fire Field

Worst aura by far. A defensive tool designed for offensive usage in a very underwhelming way. Envelop yourself in a shield of fire that burns foes (1 second) and grants might (1 stack 10 seconds) each time you are struck (cooldown of 1 second per attacker). Aura duration of 5 seconds and skill cooldown of 40 freakin seconds. -_- Not only should you be getting hit, you should be getting hit by quite a lot and quite frequently to see some results.

If the reason for the pathetic effects (1 Might stack and 1 second burn) is that fire fields are too common and comboing for fire aura can become OP, at least the skill on the ele’s weapon set should have waaaaay shorter cooldown than 40 seconds. I doubt that anyone will warrant it as OP even on 15 seconds CD. It’s just a worthless skill in the focus off-hand to have too long a cooldown.

What’s funny is that you can get Fire Aura on D/D on a lower CD than on focus, but it doesn’t proc aura share if you use that. It does proc Zephyr’s Boon and Elemental Shielding, though.

Atherakhia.4086:

K U T M.4539:

Atherakhia.4086:

Tim.6450:

there is a cap for condition duration it’s 100%.

And it should be 40%.

50% seems good, as it’s the current max you can get in spvp.

But the condi meta is out of control in PvP, so clearly that won’t work.

I still think the best thing for this game is to just set an actual cap to +/- duration. This way classes with traits can use traits. those without can use food. If you use all of the above you’re not throwing the whole game out of whack forcing everyone else to run max as well.

What that cap is, couldn’t care less… 20/40/50 etc.

Well the way it works in pvp is that you have to give up around 100-200 condi damage for the extra 20% condi duration from a runeset. In wvw, you give up 30 condi damage and 70 vit or precision for 40% condition duration, which is just ridiculous.

Cyricus.2981:

I think we should just sweep this one under the rug…..oh wait.

+1

DanPowers.1096:

Ah K U T M, I’m glad you brought this up, purging flames synergizes incredibly well with Runes of Melandru. This gives you a 58% reduction on condition duration applied to you for 6 seconds. You can use purging flames three times in the less time than it takes for Berzerker Stance to come off CD, curing 9 conditions on yourself and allies standing near you, granting reduced condition duration to them as well, and ultimately netting a nice 18 seconds of almost 60% condition duration reduction (Plus the 15 seconds of burning you apply to enemies doesn’t hurt either). The difference between a shout-cure build and mine is that they cure one more condition than me every 28 seconds, and for 30% of a 60 second fight conditions roll off of me almost as soon as they’re applied. For example, a 4 second bleed will only tick once, because the bleed duration would be reduced to less than 2 seconds.

Fighting common pvp condi builds you’d have between -28% and -8% reduction of base.

That’s not exactly “sliding right off”.

Atherakhia.4086:

Tim.6450:

there is a cap for condition duration it’s 100%.

And it should be 40%.

50% seems good, as it’s the current max you can get in spvp.

This thread is gold

Viking Jorun.5413:

Hah. All sarcasm aside, this would have been fantastic, as a sort of mobile waypoint or even ranged siege platform.

Imagine the possibilities for siege trolling

Jaxs.5830:

K U T M.4539:

Maskaganda.2043:

you must be doing something right to get hated on the first reply.
some good fights there, just kinda dislike a 4 guardians setup :p

Triple bunker is the 5 man meta, typically.

If you are running triple bunker in a five man it is because you need the crutch, not because it is effective. I agree with Mask, way to many guardians, poor comp for roaming play where you need to adjust to a wide variety of situations. The comp is more like a 5 man GvG group than a roaming group.

Yeah, most people need the crutch.

That’s why it’s meta.

5 bunkers for trolololol tho.

We’re winning because Os guild went AWOL and CoSa imploded.

I play condi engi, which is on the losing end of a few of the strongest hardcounters in the game.

Condi necro > Condi engi every time.

Low stability uptime means I have a high chance of getting destroyed by cc-heavy comps.

The thing is this is a team game and not balanced around 1v1, so while a necro will absolutely destroy me 1v1, if its a 2v2 where we both have a support player backing us, it will be MUCH more even.

Maskaganda.2043:

you must be doing something right to get hated on the first reply.
some good fights there, just kinda dislike a 4 guardians setup :p

Triple bunker is the 5 man meta, typically.

I use that trait setup for a PvP spec w/ zerk amulet. One/two wells and one/two spectrals for added LF generation cuz necros get focused hard. Great downed pressure and can maintain high DS uptime.

Sometimes swap +50% crit chance for Stab on DS, DS stomping with stability is too nice.

Terravos.4059:

Every time I see a ranger ask for pets scaling off our stats, I cry a little inside..Its like they don’t know they’re asking for basically a huge nerf to themselves.

But now their pets 4 bleeds will tick for 100, yay!

Distaste.4801:

I would go for the following.

Rally only on spiking.
Spiking gets pushed back by damage.
Downed abilities do not cause the pushback.
Rezzing gets pushed back by damage.
Rezzing applies reveled.

This way if you down an enemy in the middle of the fight they stay downed until either they get rezed, get spiked, or their teammates spike someone. Since damage would push back spiking/rezzing it would be a risk to try and do so in the middle of combat. Pushing back spiking due to damage also counters the stability issue a little bit.

No one would ever get spike again, rofl

With this spec fighting condi, once you blow your Absolute Resolution and Purging Flames it’s gg.

wat

/15characters

I would definitely recommend FC over SBI for roaming, having fought both of them at length before.

Yarr/Main/SNKY/SS are all notable roaming guilds from FC.

Carpboy.7145:

Using focus pull to set up unavoidable zerker/iwarden?

Got hit by that combo from a mes on NSP yesterday (I haven’t fought focus mesmers in forever :s), it hurts.

Other engis (THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE) and thieves.

Please don’t add condi duration on armor LOL

Cero.5132:

What build are you even talking about? Are you just hating engineers in general or do you have anything to back up your request for nerfs?

He doesn’t have anything to back it up other than engis are better than rangers at applying conditions.

No Walking.6349:

K U T M.4539:

Yep, and other classes can bunker, buff, and apply conditions better than Engineers.

Welcome to GW2.

You’re right they can, but they spec specifically into one of those roles and not the others. No other class can do all at the same time as well as Kit Engis can.

I forsee turret buffs and kit nerfs incoming thankfully. Engis need it.

So the jack-of-all trades, master of none class is the jack-of-all-trades while not doing any of them perfectly? I never would have seen that one coming.

Dps guard, condi nade engi.

You’ll basically always come out of the fight low simply because of how Combustive Shot + warrior sustain works, though.

Soldiers Helm, Chest, Legs, and rings, and clerics rest. Swap out rings and Helm to cleric once you get Applied Fortitude.

No Walking.6349:

K U T M.4539:

wew my post broke.

Anyway: Golden age(s) of rangers: BM bunker, Traps, Spirits. Spirits are still good. BM is still strong (It actually hard counters spirit rangers, funny enough).

I would call all those builds viable…not OP though. Other classes can bunker, buff, and apply conditions better than Rangers.

Yep, and other classes can bunker, buff, and apply conditions better than Engineers.

Welcome to GW2.

Zorby.8236:

Cripple, Chill, Immobilize, if you don’t use any of these you should be aware that poeple are going to be able to escape you…

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mobile_Strikes
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rocket_Boots
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Withdraw
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Restorative_Strength

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Melandru
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dogged_March
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Leg_Mods
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Geomancer's_Freedom
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bowl_of_Lemongrass_Poultry_Soup

I got him down to 1ish% once, then got zerged xD

Always fun to attempt if you get stuck in there.

wew my post broke.

Anyway: Golden age(s) of rangers: BM bunker, Traps, Spirits. Spirits are still good. BM is still strong (It actually hard counters spirit rangers, funny enough).

No Walking.6349:

K U T M.4539:

Everyones roaming on PU mesmers, actually. Just go ask the mesmer forum, even THEY admit they’re OP, lmao.

PU mesmers take an hour to kill someone though. They’re just like Thieves, will stealth for hours till they get you in a bad spot. More cheese than OP IMO.

3k Condi damage PU mesmer with crazy bleed stacking and torment that can one shot most people doesnt take very long to kill much

Too many PU mesmers go WAAAAAYYY too bunk and don’t realize the kind of damage they can dish out.

Lupanic.6502:

@no Walking : Let me guess you are playing a thief, don’t you?

Based on post history, he plays Warrior and Ranger.

Both of which can get silly high Hp/s. im dying that’s too funny

No Walking.6349:

Call it a broken thread all you want. The fact that everyone is roaming with Engis, and that you’re all here relentlessly defending a broken build, just goes to show how OP it is. I know you are all enjoying roflstomping people in WvW, but honestly it’s OP and has to end…just like it did with DD eles.

Everyones roaming on PU mesmers, actually. Just go ask the mesmer forum, even THEY admit they’re OP, lmao.