Guild Wars 2

Easy to play? Probably. However I feel if any class is played by a very skilled player, they are incredible and can beat a warrior. Yes they are in a very good place right now, but that doesn’t mean it’s a lazy class to play it easy mode.

In all honesty, kiting a warrior is still a very viable tactic to beating warrior. It happens to me a lot and I’ve been beaten by a player that does it well. Warriors are good at sitting in the pocket. That was the design behind the changes and it’s worked. Change your tactics rather than going toe to toe with them. You might be surprised.

Nice seeing you guys run tonight. Welcome back and pleasure playing with you.

So what your saying is that you think this build in a more skilled persons hand can accomplish great things? I don’t need proof, there’s little doubt it’s still decent. However there are other builds that trump it pretty significantly, mainly condi builds at the moment. I can see where your going with it, but it requires you to execute skills to perfection, if not, as your video points out, your sitting round waiting.

Condi builds are really good at pressure. The video actually draws on it’s downsides more than it’s upsides.

Chopping game play. Using main abilities when opponent has there massive telegraphed skills happening. Not great but I can see what your getting at.

Sword has good over time damage. Axe has serious on demand damage which the right setup. I run a 10/0/30/0/30 build with the same axe/shield combo but with hammer in groups. I’m curious what you take in traits. Can you do a quick build for me?

Nice video. Keep it up.

I have to say, this CDI is literally amazing. I literally have nothing to contribute because everyone has either said what I thought or completely explain my idea in huge detail, far more than I ever could!

I really hope feedback is taken and used ASAP!

Merry Christmas to all players and developers. It’s been an amazing year thanks to everyone!

Have a happy holiday!

Juba.8406:

Carpboy.7145:

KarlusDavius.1024:

Carpboy.7145:

10/0/30/30/0 sure is tanky, but not using hammer in a commanding build is such a waste. I actually prefer this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNBMhJak0pFOFSGCHOgge8FVBXoe8GbYckKIGA-jUBBYfCiZnFRjtMqIasabYqYER1SBonwI-w

You get lots of control, lots more toughness. And with all your stances you can become immune to everything, CC, Conditions, and damage. The damage you get with the knight/cavalier mix is so much better than the health from full soldier.

You want the health. You want full PVT. Ignore damage, your one and only concern is staying alive. Forget damage. I can’t see the build but running full stances is what I do. However, shout is still a brilliant option.

The difference in effective health between full knight/cavalier and full soldier is only 10k,

how did calculate it ? i’m seeing close to 20k difference in effective health

Even if it was only 10k, you want that 10k. However, it is around 20k. You always want full PVT gear. Personally, I go with 4/6 resistance runes and 2/6 melandru runes so conditions melt off me. But that’s just me

Carpboy.7145:

10/0/30/30/0 sure is tanky, but not using hammer in a commanding build is such a waste. I actually prefer this.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNBMhJak0pFOFSGCHOgge8FVBXoe8GbYckKIGA-jUBBYfCiZnFRjtMqIasabYqYER1SBonwI-w

You get lots of control, lots more toughness. And with all your stances you can become immune to everything, CC, Conditions, and damage. The damage you get with the knight/cavalier mix is so much better than the health from full soldier.

You want the health. You want full PVT. Ignore damage, your one and only concern is staying alive. Forget damage. I can’t see the build but running full stances is what I do. However, shout is still a brilliant option.

I’ve seen and heard this term thrown around a fair amount. I know it’s based in venoms and the trait that allows you to share it, however what is the significance of the sharing? Why is it so beneficial? And why does it seem to always involved thieves guild?

I’m very new to thief, so please be patient and help out a guy who sucks!

Silverthorn.8576:

Nice monoblob SFRJ and you were crying 2 days ago? Really nice karmatrain for the reset.

All is vein

Good call.

Most of the threads were disgusting. Some people went too far in the snack talk and went for personal attacks. I’m guilty of it due to frustration. Lies are spread behind the safety of a screen. Topics locked all the time. It’s not needed. Good riddance.

Harbinger.8637:

UnrepentantProcrastinator.7420:

All is vain.

Mighty Ice Arrow.9268:

KarlusDavius.1024:

If you are waiting for VZ to come, then your far, far too late. Lots of VZ have said that the chances of them being able to muster that type of force again are slim to none. And I really don’t blame them. What VZ did was nothing short of extraordinary. SFR will never be able to emulate that. Same as Piken and pretty much every other server out there.

Season 1 will probably be the only “true” WvW season we have. Since it’s ended, it’s already started the great shift of guild and players to different servers for various reasons.

Don’t take this as a hate post, I’m just stating facts. Let’s keep playing the game were playing. There are some seriously epic fights happening on every BL at the movement. I think people are enjoying it. I, for one, and loving it.

I never seen in EB map Piken taking a VZ tower (on weekends I play more than 16h/day). Last two nights I have seen some attempts from Piken to take VZ towers, the result? Fail.

Watt the hard core players from VZ and SFR think is that Piken don’t belong to this match, and in the middle of our duel we punish you for that, this is not a fact.

I can give you more facts but I think you play in BL, so no point to tell you more.

Don’t take this as a hate post, I’m just stating facts.

@UnknownRH, another fact lover. This is for you to.

Poor SFR baby is kitten that I’m right. I’ll leave you to be the EB hero you are. Because I can guarantee you we do belong in this match-up. And the many, many groups we wipe on, (you know the three other maps right?) a daily basis.

You are too late to prove anything. Using this match up is pointless. Everyone is resting and relaxing in the run up to Christmas. Which is funny because lots of SFR say nothing changed. Guess we’re wiping your normal forces with a reduced force huh? Oh, and we take Viz and SFR towers in EB all the time. Every T3 ones. Guess your not on the map at that time as you hide behind that “prime time” thing people talk about.

Don’t take it as a hate post, just stating facts brah. Go get some cream for that hurt…

Love it how people are still on the WvW is dying bandwagon. With no knowledge about anything. Just plain stupid.

Video is awful quality for me. And it’s funny how SFR come here to kitten and moan about blobbing considering your history. All we ever came up against was a blob. Now the shoe is on the other foot, you don’t like it. All we’ve done is adapted to the circumstances.

Deal with it.

Yeah. No.

15 characters.

It’s our only form of sustain. We have minimal if not near zero viable builds that give us defensive boons. Guadiana have healing and blocking, protection etc. all of which mitigate huge amounts of damage when you stack the numbers up. Thief can vaporise, recover and re-engage. Mesmer can cloak, avoid and use deception to avoid damage very well. They also have access to a lot of boons.

I won’t go into all classes, but warriors skills are very offensive focused. Yes we have a few skills which are defensive, traits can be pushed into a defensive area however it can also be in favour of offence. The new healing skill is different but it just doesn’t offer enough raw numbers to be able to stand upto signets cohesion with the viable builds we have and the sustain is gives warriors.

Healing signet is very easily countered. Poison and burst with clever, not complex but clever, play will counter it easily. Healing surge is good for the opposite. Massive numbers if at full adrenaline will counter burst however sustain is lost. It’s for a different play style altogether. One based around mobility and avoidance, not “sit in this pocket” kind of play.

If you are waiting for VZ to come, then your far, far too late. Lots of VZ have said that the chances of them being able to muster that type of force again are slim to none. And I really don’t blame them. What VZ did was nothing short of extraordinary. SFR will never be able to emulate that. Same as Piken and pretty much every other server out there.

Season 1 will probably be the only “true” WvW season we have. Since it’s ended, it’s already started the great shift of guild and players to different servers for various reasons.

Don’t take this as a hate post, I’m just stating facts. Let’s keep playing the game were playing. There are some seriously epic fights happening on every BL at the movement. I think people are enjoying it. I, for one, and loving it.

Big huge props to anyone on SFR BL tonight on all sides. EPIC fights and bags!

Thanks a bunch Oghier, that was a perfect thing to read. I have around 2k badges I can use to gear him up so I can’t wait to try it out.

Thanks to everyone for the help!

Report them and get everyone else to do the same. It’s not at all against rules to buy a second copy. It’s frowned up to be a harassment however on a different server. Trolling is something that is looked into pretty seriously.

Get the group to report him, it will flag.

Ok, any particular build that I should be following? Traveller runes isn’t a bad idea, I hasn’t thought about rune sets. In terms of gear. Would I go full zerk or mix in PVT?

Ok so I’ve hit 80. I near enough 100% do WvW content however will attempt some PvE fractals possibly.

I’m totally stuck with what builds to take.

My main priority will be flipping camps (if possible) and taking dolyaks out. Which obviously means lots of mobility and being able to get round places quickly whilst having good damage output and survivability for the camps.

Any help or links would be greatly appreciated!

You should aim for around 3.2k armour. 3k is a little low for frontline.

Full defense is needed really. Dogged march, last stand and cleansing ire are very good staple talents. You will be cleaning conditions off with cleansing frequently. Aim for PVT, gives the most for the build. Maybe play around witn a few pieces of clerics for some extra healing power with is what I’m trying at the monent. Getting around 2.3k heals per shout.

I swap between dolyak signet and balanced stance. Dolyak is useful due to toughness however, shorter cooldown is usually favoured.

I run 10/030/30/0

Minze.7065:

Not generalizing that..But “War Legend” i thought you do better!!??

Team speak info ftw!

Warrior has more mobility. Avoiding damage is the best form of survivability. It has a huge amount of cleanse capacity. Lots more diversity in terms of builds and how you shift.

Slayer.7623:

that screen shows it all, if you look closely you see rain of arowcarts shooting over my head and landing in centre were treb was standing…. i had to be fast making the picture so i died during that by targeting the right player on the cart…. and suprise suprise it was the commander. plz learn to play fair…
if you have trouble seeing the proof infront of you try to zoom in on that picture,
made it a litle easyer were to look on that picture for ppl in denial.
edit: picture

Looks 50/50 to me. You know mastery makes the circles HUGE right? And also you can target arrows carts inside anything a long as the door has a gap at the top.

L2Siege.

Can somebody test if defy pain is still activating at 25% health rather than the intended 50%? Tooltip says 25% still but figured it was an error, however I’m seeing it at 25%.

No big loss to me. Yeah hammer damage was nerfed, but it hit like a kittening truck as well as had big CC. Mace animation is a little too much however. It’s too obvious now

And to the people still moaning about healing signet. Get over it. The healing is fine. Use poison or swap your build for burst. Because, you know, it’s ok to swap skills once in a while

Immobilise needs to be looked at. Not fun having huge durations of it

Power. You have enough crit and crit damage. Make the hits hurt more.

If we are going to allow minimal suppression in chat for commanders, then gating is needed.

I’ve said before that maybe having players acquire gifts for the mystic forge, in order to gain a tradable item for the tag would be a good gate. As it requires people to actively participate in wvw and use the mystic forge.

1. Make it require gift of battle.
2. Add in a bloodstone shard so that you need 200 skill points.
3. Keep the commanders compendium in the mix but lower it to 50G.
4. Something extra. Maybe a new item, but something that means you actively did wvw.

Doing this gives you gift if the commander or whatever. Trade it in for your tag.

It needs a gate other than gold. That way it’s meaningful.

I won’t be playing the typical wvw when the new map comes out. This season has totally burnt me out and be reward, to be blunt, was kittening bullkitten compared to the hours of blood, sweat, tears and breakdowns of everything.

Arena net kittened up wvw big time. Shorter matchups sound perfect to me, nice new dynamic map! I won’t bother with the original anymore, and especially the second season.

They need to swap the drain supply on hut hit, with cows. And make the cow far, far more expensive in terms of points

Immobilize needs to stop stacking. it need to stop adding to itself. I’m sick of being in wvw and having nothing but 30 second immobilize stacks on me and my team. cleanses run out and its pointless fighting.

sort this kitten out arenanet. its pathetic.

I don’t think gold should be the only gate for the tag. Maybe incorporate the legendary mentality? 500 badges for a gift followed by a selection of things?

Gift of battle (easy time gate which makes you play wvw for the tag)
Gift of commandment (replaces commanders compendium)
Bloodstone (this gates it based on time spent actually PLAYING the game)
50 mystic coins? Daily system means you have a minimum of 50 dailies done to get it.

Stick that into the forge and you get your tag. Times gates it based on play time rather than just gold sink. Stops troll commanders.

WXP line for commanders is interesting, however it shouldnt give any bonus to direct stats. It should give increased gold drop, magic find, much like the hero banners do when within a radius of said commander. But give it a good range.

I would also like the tags on the map to pulse when I open the map, if it’s off screen, put the icon at the top and make it pulse three times. Much like a map ping on live. Also, I’d like it to flash on the mini map when in combat. Visibility is a big issue at the moment.

Other than that, most things have already been said.

Edit: can we please have a tag on siege on who placed it? It would help with the trolling.

On my phone but figured I’d chime in with one suggestion I would find invaluable. I LOVE the suggestions coming out from everyone.

The ability to drop pins/banners that signal for a specific action to happen at that location. Example being

Asking all mesmers to stack. Melee to stack. People with supply.

The only way I can see that working is to open up a banner creation system. Whereby we type in what we want stacking on that banner.

As a side note, I would love a side menu to select siege from without having to open up my massive bag which fills my screen. I know it’s nothing to do with the commander system, however it interferes witn every aspect of it when having to get siege out. I’ll write more of a specific list tomorrow at the PC

CollectorNL.7934:

Really Piken?? why are you still helping Vizunah so much on EBG?

just a few min ago we did a nice golem rush on Quentin Lake. and then Piken Square had to come and help Vizunah square by attacking us at that tower? really made no sense. we killed the Piken group. and in that time Vizunah came and repaired the gate and took out the golems

At this time Piken was defending the gate while Vizunah got in to get the gate fixed to 100% Vizunah commander leading Piken blobs these days?

That’s a pretty cool story bro! Reminds me wen SFR attacked us when we were hitting riverside. We wiped you but they repaired the gate and we had no supplies left.

SFR commander leading riverside blobs those days?

Enjoy your kitten!

Gillou.3170:

Brace yourself, Vizunah is Coming

Hey, you stole our strap line!

I use to run knights, it only gives you 8% crit chance. Go full PVT and get your damage from accessories.

OniDrake.4361:

KarlusDavius.1024:

OniDrake.4361:

Kingface.9781:

cazza.6078:

Rayya.2591:

P.S. I really feel bad for the 30 vizunah man group that upgraded Sfr garison all the night … What was the WP precent ? 80% ? -90% ?:))

It wasn’t night for them.

Keep going this way and you will be able to join the group of your buddies Wemil, Hembril, Empyre, Phoebe and co in the “Sickness caused by VS” institute of medecine.

Google “french people bad game” what all think bout french, dont be proud u win cuz sickness piken helping u, will come a match up without them soon

And you will loose as VS have far better coordination than any of us.

Good reason to help them win the league instead of focus them, clowns reborn topic what else

You just don’t get it do you. Even if piken helped SFR, we would still not topple them. The WHOLE SERVER plays for PPT. I know of no other server who does that. Yes piken says we are in it for fights and I’d say that’s 60% true.

More people play for fights, but some play for PPT. That’s not a united front to win a match up. Is it fun? Hell yes! But will it topple a server like VS? No. Not even if we joined up it won’t happen because of our lack of coverage and your lack of overall coordination. That’s just the facts of the server meta at the moment.

Oh, server meta! I like that!

OniDrake.4361:

Kingface.9781:

cazza.6078:

Rayya.2591:

P.S. I really feel bad for the 30 vizunah man group that upgraded Sfr garison all the night … What was the WP precent ? 80% ? -90% ?:))

It wasn’t night for them.

Keep going this way and you will be able to join the group of your buddies Wemil, Hembril, Empyre, Phoebe and co in the “Sickness caused by VS” institute of medecine.

Google “french people bad game” what all think bout french, dont be proud u win cuz sickness piken helping u, will come a match up without them soon

And you will loose as VS have far better coordination than any of us.

Not even 24 hours have gone and were on page 3, and not the good kind!

The league means nothing. Why? Because not every combination of server has fought. Which is a shame. Somebody said they count this as the beta league and I’m probably going to agree with that.

Well done Viz. you had one goal and made it happen. Massive respect from you guys just wish you would open field fight more often.

Good luck and see you all on the field!

We’ll this game is coming out if beta weekend tests in china. So maybe that’s what they are waiting for before any kind of expansion comes out.

I’m disappointed by the whole thing. Few reasons

It’s not a league unless everybody plays everybody. The ranking you get at the end is meaningless because some matches haven’t happened. Possibly my biggest disappointment of it all.

Hacking has come back to the forefront with a vengeance. I hardly saw it at all before, however it’s becoming a daily thing to observe fly hacking, wall hacking, zoom hacking, ports. Reporting doesn’t work, it’s rampant and destroys the spirit of the game.

Alternative motives for disruption. DDoS on teamspeak servers. Spies following around our people whilst in the same guild as the guys were about to fight, who know our every move. Totally against the ToS yet arena net refuse to be pulled into a debate about it. Much like the hacking.

I feel deflated and exhausted by the sheer amount trolling that happens. By the same people. From the same servers. Most of which is t picked up by the mods here, which can amplify the negativity felt by everyone.

A failure? Probably not, but it’s pretty close considering.

Taku.6352:

Kaiiku.2917:

KarlusDavius.1024:

Finally finished my shield and it looks AMAZING!!

Now for frostfang…
Gift of mastery done.
Time for farming dem T6!

curious to know how “farming” mats (and/or lodestones) is still a thing right now..

Also known as doing Gates of Arah event chain, Grenth temple cleanse, Melandrus second beacon and dolly farming for champ boxes and moldy bags.

Doing the temple runs gives around 60-90 moldy bags if you have some MF and a good group for tagging.

What he said. I also need 500 koda tokens so I’ll be hitting thy dungeon hard too. However if I’m doing it wrong, by all means enlighten me…

I can imagine the rune set being like melandru but with aegis at the end

Junkpile.7439:

Well whole point count system is one big fail. After new map come i won’t play in normal maps at all.

I think most people here feel exactly the same way.

On my phone so can’t I’ve a detailed comment. However 90% of them are bad ideas. It’s really annoying to read as well. Healing in weapon swap isn’t needed. However some are a nice touch. Bleed when critically hit is a nice thought.

Once again protection rears it’s ugly head. We don’t need it. Never do!

Flame seeker prophecies by far. It looks stunning and is subtle. Not in your face.