Guild Wars 2

Yes. /fifteenchars

I simply stopped using it. Currently we have only 2 useful skill on jalis.

I’m not having trouble managing energy. You can’t spam all your utilities, you have to make choices for the best flow between swaps.

He also said we are getting another direct source of swiftness, so it will be fine

It’s not extra damage, it lowers your dps compared to just AA. And you also spend energy.

Yeah, that’s serious. That’s the best utility in dwarf stance, it has to be fixed

Or just swap legend. It’s the main mechanic, use it. It’s basically an instant +50 energy, Thief can’t do it.

Sword#2 is an obstacle and a waste of energy. Aside from that it’s good. A little buff to #3 to make it worth the energy would be fine. Atm it’s weaker then AA

A small base initial heal on skill use would be perfect

I’m loving it.
Learn to use it correctly. You can swap ranged-melee, but also any weapon + staff to cure conditions.

And changing skills depending on stance is WRONG. stop suggesting it. Stance change is needed to get energy back or double heal. I don’t want to be locked on different skills for 10 seconds

But they are invulnerable while doing it, we aren’t

As title says, shouldn’t overloads kick out of attunement?

Alarox.4590:

Seems like it’s fun for map PvE, a downgrade for group content, and garbage in PvP.

I agree. If it stays like that I’m not bothering.

Darknicrofia.2604:

couple of things re: virtues

1. their active effects needs to be applied at the beginning of the cast, rather than the end

2. they need to be usable while channeling renewed focus.

THIS.

DH is weaker then Guardian also because of this.

Am I the only one that feels that DH is a downgrade compared to Guardian?

Traits are not strong as some lines you’re forced to give up, traps are mostly useless in pve (the best one got nerfed from 25 vuln to 10) and virtues are awful.
Longbow feels weaker, or at least less useful, then scepter+focus, at least in VB where mobs can 1hko a zerk Dragonhunter.

But virtues are the worst part. The effect is applied at the end of the cast, while on Guardian they’re instant and basically with best effects.

Are you seriously QQing about reaper being an upgrade? Lol, at least it’s not a downgrade like Dragonhunter.

Yeah, except when he asks me to free him after all the kitten kissing

Good damage and the most survivable of all the new specs.
There are some seriously strong monsters in VB (like those things that teleport on you) but Reaper Shroud is there to protect and hit like a truck.

Been using staff+dagger for max life force generation and it’s sweet.

I second this. /15chars

Those mobs are strong lol.

ooc mobility atm is fine. Don’t know about the future.

That could have been a trait however.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

I think he sounds great.

/shrug.

Me too.
Also loving the echo effect on Jalis.

I can’t express how much I love Jade Winds. Saved my kitten many times.
Shiro is better at tanking then Jalis.

Demanding a VA from so many years ago…
I don’t know what’s wrong with this community anymore.

Look in your inventory, you have some chests. Open them and anjoy all the weapons in the game with the stats you want.

AHAHAH, new one “I demand that you release me!”

“I’ve returned to fight at your side” is what he says when summoned.
“Together we have no equal” randomly when killing stuff
Such a bro. I’m moved.

EDIT: another sentence is “I must rise and return to fight”
EDIT2: new one “I demand that you release me!”

Plus he’s great in combination with basically every weapon. Loving staff+Shiro and Hammer+Shiro. Using those 2 in second set right after S/S

Aguasatori.7236:

It’s sad that we might have to rely on Traveler runes.

We won’t.

But you agree that any Mallyx conventional use (= condi stacking and almost no EtD) requires Jalis.

From GW2 subreddit

Hey guys!

So the beta is just under 6 hours away and I thought it would be important if we remembered what a beta is about.

This weekend will likely be a little chaotic with people testing out all they can.

• Numbers are not final. If some skills seem a little too overpowered or underpowered, they are likely to change before HoT drops.
• Bugs are likely to occur. This isn’t something to get annoyed about as this is partially the reason for a beta. You can report bugs in game by typing /bug or from the options menu
• Make the most of it! We don’t currently know when the next beta is so make sure you test whatever you’d like to!
• Finally, have fun! The beta is a chance for you to get an early look at some of the potential HoT has to offer so don’t forget to share your fun experiences with the rest of the community!
• This is a BETA, your loot and progression wont be saved.
• Content is limited as this is meant to test not to showcase content, thus not representing the final content for release in any way.
• Feedback in these betas are vital. During the playtest of the Revenant, ANET listened to all of our feedback and edited the revenant massively. There’s no reason why this won’t happen today, so make sure your feedback is constructive. " This sucks, lmao" is not useful feedback! *In case you haven’t participated in the HoT preview events before, whether stress test, portal drop beta, or whatever, the amount of content we are being shown at this point is disappointingly small. You will burn through the Verdant Brink stuff relatively quickly.

Enjoy yourself!

and once your resistance is over or you’re out of energy for Embrace, you simply die from the accumulated stacks you can’t heal (unless you give up Shiro for Jalis)

Corran.4957:

Fractal weapons, will be the only chance i get to use them on revenant before they will be all over the place due to being made easy to get!

They just won’t be RNG anymore, you don’t know if they’re easy (I’mplying RNG means hard…). However if you still want something RNG that fewer people have there will be golden fractal weapons.

And I highly doubt they’ll be all over the place, since most of those skins don’t even look good. I have Staff and I currently use it on 0 of my 9 characters. I’d trade that for mace or torch.

they already said that the old story is going to be told in a different manner.

How is this new tag going to interact with Commander tags on the map? Hope it’s not going to be confusing for players.

The mail wasn’t to ask you do do that, but to INFORM that you CAN do that.

For god’s sake, you subscribed to that newsletter. A NEWSletter is supposed to deliver NEWS.

If you don’t want that kind of emails then just unsubscribe.

Soon™
/15chars

It’s not a coincidence that this is one of my characters holding those swords: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Jormag%27s_Breath_and_Fiery_Dragon_Sword_comparison.png
Along with them I’m probably going to use GW1 staff, and Phoenix Hammer.

Still not sure about Mace. Maybe Braham’s, since I have that one sitting on my Guardian almost unused.

Aro.8275:

They could have simply gone with, this story is a vision from the mists about past events as you fully transcend to Revenant (as in GW1 new prof doing old missions).

What if that’s how it will be done? We already have a glimpse of it, with old LA appearing in story missions.

The problem with Mallyx is that if you use it as intended you just die from conditions atm. It’s only good to keep the damage up when IO is on cd.

I’m fine as long as we get it. If it’s going to be on the elite then it’s even better, since we’ll probably use it a lot more then Jalis.
Well, Jalis needs to become more useful anyway.

Glad we’ve come to an agreement. However, depending on the situation, 50 energy can be better even with 0 damage, so swapping will always be a good practice opposed to simply waiting.

Regarding Glint, I’m pretty sure that Shiro will always have the highest damage.

Kodiak.3281:

you’re forced to take a whole set of utilities for a single one.

But that’s why you can get 10 of them. They simply need to fix some of the current ones that feel useless. Again Jalis is a great example.
I mean that the idea is not wrong, it just needs polishing.

I was counting from 100. Even starting at 50 energy and supposing no reaction time wasted, EtD is still a 15seconds upkeep.

This means I can use EtD for 9 seconds and still have 18 energy to use before swapping back (factoring the 1s cast time), meaning you can even use 1 skill (maybe not for dps, but may be useful, let’s say, for healing?).
If I don’t use EtD then I simply have to wait 10 seconds without using skills to get to 50 energy again with no swap.

So you’re basically trading 20% damage with 1 second of AA, that is just the first 2 hits. Over 10 seconds you can use a full AA combo almost 6 times (18 attacks). If we average the 3 hits to 1 damage each, this means that you’re trading 18d*120% (and 18 energy) for just 20d unbuffed.
18d*120% is 21d.

And Even if those values were both 20d, there is still the 18 energy (that could be used for healing or might), the torment and a possible external quickness (even stacking in duration on top of your previous IO) making EtD a better option until you run out of it.

Not to mention you also get a 10% boost to vitality, toughness, condition damage and healing power.

Being said that, I think even swapping to Jalis may be a better option then simply waiting for energy. Of course not for dps, but you can at least spam your utility skills and be useful, or simply heal back any damage.

Kodiak.3281:

Of course when we see Glint that’ll likely screw all that up haha.

I really hope so. I don’t really want to rely on Jalis for condi cleanse, at least not until its other skills become meaningful.

Well, we can agree that Charr is the only race that can equip this helmet [&AgHw/AAA] without looking bald.

I’m not going to reply 2 times to the same thing. I’ll simply agree on your calculations with zerk gear for the sake of this place.

However EtD has a 5 energy cost and a 5-8=-3 upkeep cost, meaning it can last 31 seconds starting from 100 energy, so 1s is not 10% of the time, but 3.2% of the time.

So you gain a 20% boost over 97% uptime, still almost +20%. How is this worse then waiting without being able to do any skill except AA? Again, not factoring conditions copied (that is at least the self-torment) and external quickness.

Of course Impossible Odds is better then EtD, not arguing on that, but EtD is better then nothing (well, it’s probably better then IO when there are a couple of Guardians in the team).

200%-190%=10%
Those are already “%”. You basically did 200%/190% that is not the gain, but the proportion.

skowcia.8257:

10% precision is not equal to 10% damage by any means..Ask yourself..for once..how much damage you can get going from 90% crit chance to 100 when you basically crit the whole time at 90%?

If I do 10% more often 50% more damage, I’m doing an average of 5% more damage.

What I was getting wrong is the actual base crit damage bonus being just +50% compared to base damage (base damage * 1.5 is not 150% more, but just 50% more), but what you’re saying, skowcia, is pretty stupid.
You don’t crit “the whole time” at 90%, you crit exactly 90% of the time. You do not crit sometimes, losing all your critical damage in those occasions.

Are you implying that 90% = 100%? Seriously?
Tell me it was a joke.

Knox.8962:

So after doing actual math, for a full zerker rev using the 2 150 ferocity traits, EtD is worth 20% damage if you have fury@30% and 0 might.

If you go up to 25 might, that drops to a 17.6% damage increase.

Factoring in the cast time, you get 8% and 5.8% respectively.

EDIT: Yeah, it’s around 20%. In my previous calculations I considered the 150% crit damage as an addition, not a multiplier. d*150%=1.5d is what happens, not d+(d*150%)=2.5d

Still +20% is better then just waiting 10 seconds unable to do anything except AA. And it’s way more then the 10% that was mentioned before (and way better then IO if you’re getting external quickness from Mesmer/Guardian).

@Kodiak
I kinda agree with you, however I wasn’t talking about Salvation+Ventari, but only Salvation trait line.
Also yeah, thinking more carefully Retribution is kind of a must in WvW for the damage reduction against ranged foes, plus mitigations and Retaliation. Guess we’ll probably have to rely on Invocation for condi cleanse.