Guild Wars 2

Also, I feel like ESC usually has a better response, so I can cancel 1/4s cast skills while with SW I hardly can.

I think this will be fixed with HoT, cause I believe that the second engineer daily is in fact the future Revenant daily, but not sure at all :p

+1 anet please

Made my day

/15 chars

Arantheal.7396:

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

Add stealth gyro, elixir S , elixir B, wrench and you have one unkillable engi in any pvp setting.

I don’t know, but my l2p-sense starts tingling whenever someone uses the term “unkillable” on something he wants to nerf…

So it seems someone bunkered up against power dmg…
Good on him. Can you tell me why you haven’t tried to kill him with condis?

Adaptative Armor+Hoelbrak+Celestial gear+Alchemy are more than enough in order to tank conditions, while easily stacking 25 stacks of might in order to do awesome damage :p

At least we have (when traited) a 6s daze in kitten cd :p

EDIT: I love how it automatically switches from “5s cd” into kitten

Kitty.1502:

Knighthonor.4061:

Kitty.1502:

Not really, until core ranger is fixed they will only fill niche roles.

I disagree. Its been very powerful. In fact, with a well coordinated team that follows the plan, a good Druid can lock down a spot.

With no stability and not great self survival they are easy to focus down/deal with.

Signet of Stone/G.Equality/L.Reflexes and gs#3 staff#3 should allow you to escape from any focus and then heal yourself. Also you can block projectiles and immob backwards with staff, and another block with gs, making it easier to run from a fight, and if using the right trait, stealth+superspeed after CA so you can reset your position easily.

My female norn looks awesome when AAing

I think Cosmic Ray from CA should do half of the actual healing, and convert the other half into damage, so even if CA its highly focused on healing, it can still do some symbolic damage while reducing a little bit the heal spam of the AA, making the other 2-5 skills even more important

Sword #3 is the only high-damaging skill of any sword weapon set, aka the only skill that will potentially kill you. If it was possible to avoid/mitigate the whole UA, Revs would simply not kill anything… You cant mitigate all dmg from an enemy. The only rational change (proposed on BWE2) would be to decrease the dmg of the first hits and increase the last one, so using one dodge at the end would mitigate way more than now

Legit Prep In.5893:

it is the actual first really usefull trait for a melee build of engi. Pray they dont nerf it.

I hope they nerf it, its broken af

I think is just a marauder rifle build with Adaptative Armor, which gives you insane tankiness

Yes, probably this is not intended, sometimes it happens with new specs, that older traits dont recognize some new stuff

Druid is just amazing :p

I hope this isnt intended, if not you basically need to run TU with druid cause it refills your Af as nothing and triggers Natural Mender every sec too

Only skills that do dmg on revenant, of course they are going to hit. Mesmers mind wrack hits the same as UA, with the same cd, and its instant. Also, is hard to land a full Surge, and it costs a lot of energy. Infuse Light is just a 0-100 heal most times, so here you just have to live with the fact that you need to down revenant heal two times.

Yes, it makes no sense to run shouts that give you auras, and Powerful Aura when they overwrite each other, its just stupid

C’mon, solve this already please

insaneseagull.7063:

Caine.8204:

Conditions. Reaper. Corrupts. Do I have to say more?

Celestial amulet

Soul Reaping:
Speed of shadows
vital persistence
foot in the grave

Curses:
plague signet
master of corruption
weakening shroud

Reaper:
relentless pursuit
chilling victory
deathly chill

Weapons:

Scepter/Dagger + Staff
+bleed on swap
+chill on swap

nightmare runes

Skills:
Consume Conditions
Corrosive Cloud
Corrupt Boon
Spectral Armor
Plague Form

This build will wreak havoc in melee combat, initiating with staff skills and shroud generation #1. position yourself towards a target, swap into shroud and #3 – #4, #5 if you manage to hit them with the entire load.

Swap to scepter and start your rotations, gain your distance. wait for staff skills to recharge.

go into melee and burst shroud before going to staff.

repeat.

try it.

Not to be that guy buuuut….
Points in a match can not ever reflect a players;
A)Skill
B)Build efficiency
C)Teamplay

Nor do those endgame stats.

EG,I can sit on treb in Khylo the whole match and be on top with points.

I think that, even if maybe it was on a match out of 20, +500k condi dmg on celestial is pretty awesome

But it should give protection too, and its not the case

I think if something is fully build around quickness, it should get what he wants. Wait a little bit so people can learn how to counterplay this build and then we will see if its op or not

Just asking myself this, I dont remember if it has been answered on forums/twitch reveals, but how the badges will appear? With all your characters? With a character? Or with a profession?

IMO it should be the last one :p

Lethal Njection.8741:

How to play thief

Step 1: Pres f12 key
Step 2: Click character select
Step 3: Create Elementalist
Step 4: Profit

Hope this helps

:p

Jekkt.6045:

ofc you get flamed for playing fresh air because you’re playing “a useless spec instead of d/d”. you basically get flamed for everything on ele atm.

what website is that, that displays your games/wins? looks interesting

I have to disagree here, never been flamed when playing Fresh Air :p

The good thing is that you can use this tomes with any character, not the one you use ofr PvP, so you can PvP with a character and after level up another to lvl80 in a few minutes (something you cant do when PvEing)

Play Fresh Air, never been flamed for using this build :p

I find more condi rangers than power rangers. DD, staff and Fresh eles. The two soldier variant engineers, elixir gun engineers nd condi engineers. Maybe 30% of thieves I encounter are S/D. I usually find more bunker guards than burn guards, maybe in a 60/40 ratio. And a lot of warriors, both GS/hammer and shoutbow. I only agree with you on mesmer/necros, I rarely see power necros or lock mesmers.

Warlord of Chaos.7845:

The fact that d/d ele sustain was not touched is hilarious. They still will have perma vigor from water and Ring of fire even got a general buff. I guess we get to enjoy another 6 months of double/triple d/d ele.

Vigor is not that good right now, thats why people usually takes energy sigils, and still it has been nerfed. Also, even if this is not the change I would have made to RoF, yes it has been sustantially nerfed in overall

It doesnt match with GW lore

Of course it was a needed change, OP is just talking about the fact that its not that op trait when used on a shatter mesmer, but theres other builds and gamemodes…

Im hyped with the scepter rework, gonna play some Fresh Air until Tuesday :p

I dont think that Druid is poorly designed, I mean, in fact it has one of the more competitive and well desgined skills and traits of all the specs. Also, staff skills have some relation with plants, they look like roots and mushrooms and stuff like this. It doesnt feel at all as this spec was rushed.

I dont like this healing focus the elite has, but Ranger needed a good elite so hard

Azure.8670:

its not worthless because it still has a freeze. believe it or not, 50% damage decrease its still optimal for damage… its just not RIDICULOUS now

This

Well, I think it was a really needed nerf, it was facerolling an already facerolled combat system on PvE

Stilgar.6437:

it is not like retaliation. you do dmg to all enemies for all hits. Getting hit by rapidfire with retal – 10x retal dmg to ranger that hit you. Getting hit by rapidfire with SoU – 10x aoe dmg in 300 radius. HUGE difference. Think about getting focused fired by 3-4 people (with all their clones, pets, sigil procs, multi hit skills, shatters etc.) in a teamfight in pvp. Its only 1/2s cast too, so you can use it reactively.

Im not sure it works like this, at least it doesnt seemed so on twitchy, but maybe you are right

Wondrouswall.7169:

Glyph of Unity: Tethers you to enemies. Any damage you take during the tether is propagated to enemies tethered to you. You are still taking the damage while tethered but you can use Glyph of Alignment for example to reduce the incoming damage to you without affecting the propagated damage. Glyph of Stone also works here to make you immune to damage while you propagate the incoming damage.

Pretty sure he means Signet of Stone, but I’m seeing possibilities of those hard-hitting, one-shot attacks being paired with SoS in PVE content to have bosses kill themselves.

5 Druids vs Lupi. I can’t be the only one that had this thought cross their mind.

Dont be hyped, the damage is capped, its pretty much like 5s retaliation in a 20s cd

Stilgar.6437:

Best elite in the game? Lasts 5s, 300 range (excellent), do dmg to 5 enemies for every hit you suffer (no ICD!). Everything shown from druid/ranger was great but this elite could be the top highlight (along with dragonfire ). This has so much potential and just look at that cooldown. And you get to trait it for bonus effects too, plus the rune procs eventually. Great for every game mode

Please do not nerf this in any way, i wouldnt say its OP (it does have a pretty obvious counter) but it is brilliant, ranger needs some top tier stuff too

Its like retaliation

Its nice to have a support based spec, but cmon, what happened to the “no healer” ideology? Cause its rekt with this spec so hard

Solid gameplay all in all, there are things to improve, but it was nice in overall. Seems like you have a good understanding about how PvP works, so now keep practicing and improving :p

BTW, you could use your elite skill a little bit more

HaxTester.9816:

Thanks for the input, now I know it’s not just necros having this problem. It happened to me alot, by alot I mean probably 20 to 30 times already or even more. It’s already been several months since I last reported this, and it’s getting so frustrating. Can you make the change to downed state an interrupt, so whatever you were pressing at the time gets canceled, and we don’t trigger downed state skill 2 because of that?

Yeh, I was going to say the same, this should solve the problem without changing how skill queue works

Vapour.7348:

I’d rather have wells be instacast instead of ground targeting. It’s not like you benefit from protection anyways if it isn’t placed where you stand

Lol please no

H Y P E B O I S

Sorry, missunderstand.Theres actually no way to auto save your combat log, but it will be a huge change too

The first one exists already, open a new chat tab and edit it. The second one is so much needed, agree

ronpierce.2760:

- Improvisation, changed to “You can use Stolen items Twice. After stealing, your next utility has its cooldown reduced by 50%. I feel like this would reduce the RNG and the initial impact of certain resets while increasing the play. With the right set up and consideration, I feel like this could make for some better decision making and increase defenses in a more predictable manner. (Buff lasts 15 seconds.)

I want this so bad (it should affect too heal and elite), Im tired of the more or less gamechanging RNG and I feel that this change is so much needed. I’ve also thought about making your f2 skills last 20% more or something lile this instead of the skill recharge, but this change solve the problem too

Nilix.2170:

Liewec.2896:

were you watching the same stream as me?
triple leap finisher evade,
block attack, reflect attack,
tons of daze from lightning fields

500 health per second from super speed (and lads of access to it),
250 per second from swiftness
(lets hope they stack!)

tons of stability

lets not mention that every 30 seconds you and your finisher bot can both stability stomp.

its gonna be very fun trying different builds!

It was 105 for swiftness and 470 from superspeed and yes, they do stack. So if you’re running Streamlined Kits, and swap to Tool Kit, you’ll get Swiftness (10s) + Super Speed(2s), and you’ll get a +575hp for the first two seconds, 105 for the rest.
He did say that it scales with healing power, but you know how healing power scaling is.

The Master traits look really nice on paper so far. I’m probably going to be running Expert Examination over Rapid Regeneration or Mass Momentum (All that alliteration…)
9s of weakness + 5 stacks vuln with no ICD? That’s like an immediate buff to Supply Crate.

The guy stated that this trait scaled well with Healing Power, so lets see… And, the heal starts at s 0 or s1? Cause if it starts at s0 equipping toolkit gives you like 1300hp from SS heal, pretty nice

bhagwad.4281:

Plague sending transfers 5 condis, not 3 – just like plague signet.

Yes, but it triggers when you have 3+, I think thats what he was trying to say

Hvaran.6327:

Krysard.1364:

TBH most of gyros are crap, you are going to tale this spec cause the traits

you couldn’t expect much of gyros. Most of new elite spec suck on skills on right side of health bar and mostly seen viable at this point because of the traits and some cool F or weapon skills.

Though. minor trait gyro – BEAST, stab stomp 8s stab to both or revive your allie. Stealth gyro is decent, healinggyro – doesn’t seem to be any good in my eyes. others..need to test in field more and see how it goes with other lines/skills.

Yeh, I think the only viable gyro is the elite, the other are worst than what we have right now

Obviously this build was not made for actual PvE, but the dev was saying stuff about raids, so maybe we can hope this spec can be useful there