Guild Wars 2

Eiland.1405:

Yeah I originally meant to ask why do you use burst mastery if you don’t burst so often.
So we agree on that, but IMO if you don’t need burst mastery just make another build:
30/0/25/0/15 (or 30/0/20/0/20) is a powerhouse for every GS build.
You will get much more damage than your current build – 300 power >> 15% crit dmg, 10% on GS, 3% always, 15% dmg >>> 15% cit chance, dodge rolls…
The only utility you will lose is ‘Defy Pain’ , which personally i find to be very meh, but you will get extra dodges form ‘building momentum’ so no real lose on survivability.
Strength line also give accesses to ‘Death from above’ which is very good for wvw roaming, or the trait for plain vitality boost.
Of course if you do not want to give up ‘Defy Pain’ a 20/0/30/0/20 build is also a good choice and still stronger then yours.

tl;dr:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIEQNAneRjkOtwFPyO4wBEMDNsKMP+BgoI0HmDA-j0CBYfBEbEiCJQEBgZmFRjtMqIas6aYKXAaXLq2aeQrW0JWKAmUGB-w

Hmmm, i’ll give it a shot. My build doesn’t revolve around GS though, I mainly use it for the mobility and the occasional body cleave through 100b.

Destruction of the Empowered is also such a good trait as on average, people have around 3 boons which is a 9% dmg boost. I also think giving up 15% crit chance is HUGE, as i’ve noticed a clear dmg increase the moment I replaced Burst Mastery with it.

But i’ll give it a shot and i’ll tell you more about it later.

PandaBear.7510:

I had a question for you (and anyone else reading this who wants to answer). I noticed in your previous videos that you were using x/sh + hammer instead of GS. I’m trying to get a good idea of what the advantages/disadvantages are for picking one over the other (GS vs Hammer).

I used to play hammer/gs alot, you can create a good deal of damaging combinations with the 2. I mainly took GS for the mobility though. Also before ArenaNet fixed sigil of paralyzation you could Earthshaker and land almost a full 100b chain. Unfortunately you can’t do that anymore. I decided to go for sword/shield because they changed the auto attack chain and, in my eyes, buffed final thrust. Still maintained good mobility through savage leap, an extra stun and a 3second block and not to forget our burst skill, flurry. I think sword/shield works best with hammer as it compliments your hard cc with soft cc when using your sword/shield.

Eiland.1405:

Great Vid man, as always.

But I’m pretty sure you didn’t have ‘burst mastery’ trait for the whole vid, your adrenaline does not fill up after eviscerate.,unlike in the build you posted… is it on purpose?

Yup you’re right, thats my fault, did not realise that build editor wasnt updated. I replaced burst mastery with heightened focus as i believe the overall more crits is far more beneficial than an extra 7% dmg on my burst skill. As for the adrenaline. I gain so much adrenaline in a short time span through cleansing ire and axes’ fast auto attacks that i haven’t missed it

Thanks for your support!

Biggest strengths of a warrior is that they have quite high natural sustain through healing signet. This paired with excelent mobility to kite and high base armor/hp is probably what makes a warrior one of the more stronger classes for solo roaming. They also have quite some condi clearing through cleansing ireand a great deal of CCs

Warriors biggest weakness is most likely soft cc (i.e cripple, chill, immobilizes). There are ways however to reduce this with dogged march/condi reduction runes and food. Though if you meet a condi class focused on stacking condi duration, you will still get moderately long soft ccs. Most adrenaline skills require you to physically hit someone to activate cleansing ire sobeing kited makes this hard. Not to forget that poison is a direct counter to healing signet and it is applied abundantly.

Also blinds can very problematic when you’re using hammer.

Flintbrow.7985:

Nice vid! I use same weps, slightly different build. Axe/Shield is a blast, no? I love the interrupts and judging when best to block…makes combat more fun for sure. Keep posting and I’ll keep watching.

Yup! Really enjoying axe. I’ve always played with hammer/gs but axe feels so refreshing cause of it’s dmg pressure.

I will try to post atleast 1 minitage a week.

Thanks for your support

great video, i guess im into Axe/Sh , i use Sw/Sh but man the amount of damage you put is amazing plus good survivability basically forcing most of your enemies on the defensive.

also your omelet recipe is fantastic xD

Haha, best omelette in town xD

Furajir.3815:

Only time I’ve not liked the music in any of your videos. I wish I had 2 more more hands so I could give it 4 thumbs down.

GJ my friend

Thats a shame, to receive thumbs down cause of the music. I was under the impression that people watch videos for their content and not th music which can be muted and replaced to whatever you want. Guess i’m ignorant lol.

Ill try use more mainstream music in the future. Thanks for taking the time to watch it though.

Short 7 minute video, just your typical burst warrior. Has a nice 1v1 with Korosh.i (apprently his name gets censored? lol) at the end though.

All info needed in the description box

awesome vid Joe! Nice to see your tricks explained, hopefully it’ll help alot of shatter mesmers who are struggling

Juba.8406:

Unsuspecting Foe has recently changed, you should look for a new build.

I like your signature :P

Warlord.9074:

Nice vid, mostly the same build I’ve been running for since last summer. One question though at no time were you close to 25% HP health threshhold. If you don’t get that low to take advantage of that trait don’t you think there are better traits. Out of the other usfull traits that I think that would work with your build. Furious speed, Rendering strikes, leg specialist, Great fortitude would be better picks. Great Fortitude would give you more HP than the 10 points in Compassion for sure if that is what you were after.

Ahh i guess in this specific fight desperate power wasn’t that useful. But whenever i solo roam i usually find myself outnumbered. But because i have double Endure Pain i can take full advantage of the trait.

In this clip Mugi was healing me alot and he took most of the dps.

Thanks for watching!

Hey guys, started recording again after a long break. Decided to go for short clips that I thought were interesting/entertaining for the public to see.

If people like these fast and short clips, I’ll post more short clip regularly.

I am using I Rising Raiden I ’s build atm and am very succesful with it!
http://tinyurl.com/raidensbuild

Video linky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee5QQtz8a2c

Also check out Raiden’s channel for more warrior videos!
http://www.youtube.com/user/watevakaiXD

Awesome video Joe, nice to see you back on the engi. Did however notice that you explode your turret sometimes where it probably would have been better to pick it up for more condi cleanse/reduced cooldown.

Aside from that keep up the good work!

alright jinx, we’ll see you in the next tourney then.

Jinx.7258:

My words werent pointed out only to your team. Pretty much everyone ran their spvp build into large scale fight where these builds become pretty useless. There were no skillful play because almost no teams used their classes as group to focus their abilities and execute proper fight. Not to mention how many idiotic stuff were used… like minion necros lol or Lich Form (if someone is unaware how OP Plague is in big scale fight is his fault… ).
Very few used stealth/veil at the begining of every fight which is crucial. Every WvW player will tell you that. You have no idea how many guilds we’ve anihilated because >1< of their members has failed to use the veil =>their tactics are uncovered and instead of surprising us,we’ve surprised them.
Except for Posi,I didnt see almost no other necro abusing the wells on both downed allies and enemies.
Needless to say how group play works. Simpliest example is: Guard’s greatsword pull followed by Hammerstuns and Wells,all in the same time,on the very same spot.
Almost no use of ANY combo fields+finishers tactics. Such stuff I expected into “GvG” tournament.

Battle Standard should be precasted and is quite good indicator how warrior is being played skillfully. And there’s no such thing as wasting it lol. Not to mention you run w/e classes u can play rather than what you have to. Thieves,Engies and Rangers have no place in big scale pvp whatsoever.

Foefire’s graveyard has enough space for 10v10 eventhough is not that much. And many guilds practice in such enviremont because:
- Its smallER scale than the real GvG and every single player’s mistakes become obvious and crucial for the outcome.
- You can observe and “teach” players!
- Practice of opening/ressing/focusing of dps tactics.

Im still on the point this was nothing but normal tournament with 2 extra players.

Many people believe there’s no skillful play involved in big scale pvp/GvG. Im just gonna say that WvW guilds/GvGers put numerous times more efforts into preparing themselves for a fight than the spvpers. Herding 20 players and expecting every single one of them to do what they are expected to do, in the exact second they should do it… is alot harder than focusing 1 player to burst it down with 5 of you.

Ait, i’ll bite one more time. Just to make sure, you have watched the video right? Cause it doesn’t seem like you did.

Our necro swapped from plague form to Lich form because Stream Team was stacking 25 might at the start of each engagement. Lich form strips boons. I did not see any minion necroes either. Only Good Fights’ Necro was using Flesh Wurm (he drops it out of the mid point and uses the teleport when hes focused). Our necro did drop wells on downed players, almost everytime it was off cooldown actually. He was a support necro though, he heals us through his wells.

Really Veil? A skill thats on a 90 second cooldown on a shatter mesmer and using it recklessly allows the enemy team to take ticks off of the point if everyone happens to get stealthed by it.
I think you’re misunderstanding the concept of this tourney. You are literally comparing a 20v20 WvW GvG to a 6v6 sPvP GvG where theres a secondary objective (i.e killing the lord to win the game aswell as capping mid point to be eligible).

The more players you bring into a GvG the less dependant a fight will be on individual skill. It is simply a fact. Others can correct your mistakes. Hence why I wouldn’t particularly call every player in a 20v20 “skillful”. Aslong as you stick to your commander, who calls the shots for you, you’ll do ok. This isn’t a bash against larger scale GvG, but this is just how I think of it.

As for the combofields; it’s simply inefficient in these kinds of smaller skirmishes. To pull of a good sequence of combofields you’d have to stack. Stacking with only 6 players will kill you. the AoE cap is 5, you should know this, so almost our entire group would suffer under the enemy’s AoE if we had stacked. Imperial Army did this when they fought Good Fights, and well they blew up in under 5 seconds. The only combofields that we had were area weakness and area might anyways. I drop Combustive shot regularly and Area Might it when I can. But it’s not a big deal as we had a staff guardian empowering us regularly.

As for the warbanner thing, meh I suppose you are correct that i could anticipate someone going down and precast warbanner.

I get that you are VOTF and they are “the best 20v20 GvG guild” but I don’t think that entitles you to decide what GvG is. You’re effectively comparing apples to oranges.

Jinx.7258:

The quality of gameplay in these matches is so low lol… It has no team play whatsoever, it shows no skillful gameplay…. If you are doing the same in WvW says enough about your guild lol

To comment on the warrior PoV: You are running selfish spvp build. No group focused build and/or utilities. Your team mates are about to drop and you are not even trying to use Battle Standard etc etc etc…

The whole idea of this tournament was badly placed in general. If you wanted to execute team fight focused tournament you had to go with 10v10 again on Foefire and actually contact to the WvW guilds that are GvG-ing… Would have actually seen lots of focused play and sth worth seeing. That tourney was nothing but 5v5 game with 2 extra players and PvE ending lol

Kudos to all who put so much effort to organise and shoutcast this tournament but it could’ve been 1,000 times better

Not sure how to reply to this. Mainly the first part where you say that theres no skillful gameplay involved. Don’t feel like our guild has anything to prove at this point, i’ve put all my guildies youtube channels in the description box. Almost all of em has footage of 5vX’s. I haven’t recorded such footage yet but if you truly want to find out how skillful we are, we are on the Northern Shiverpeaks server, you can contact Joe.4178 to setup a 5v5.

As for my warrior build, what other setup should i have run? My task was to apply sustained aoe dmg and CC which I believe was doing with the longbow and hammer. I may have made quite some mistakes at certain stages of the fight but i don’t think the builds to blame for that. In order to keep my dmg up I have to stay alive so hence my utilities. As for not using Warbanner, that is simply untrue. I may not have used to every time but thats because I save it for the more crucial members such as Raiden or Pheownix. Can’t just Warbanner everyone like you guys do in your 20v20’s (Yes i saw your YT acc).

I think the tournaments idea is pretty good. It’s exciting and is the closest game mode i’ve seen that had straight up GvG. Don’t think the map is big enough to support a 10v0 on the mid point. Arena Net would have to pick this up and make an actual official game mode out of this with a proper map.

Thanks for watching everyone though

Thought i’d put it here too, not always the best warrior play, but it’s a team effort :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp/6v6-Bloodytech-ESL-Tourney-tM-PoV-Vent

Hey there guys, I recorded yesterdays first round Trillmatic vs Stream Team.

This is a tM warrior PoV. Unfortunately I forgot to record the first match, that we lost, but I did record the last 2 matches which were incredibly close.

Normally we are a WvW guild exclusively as we aren’t interested in the Conquest game mode. But tourney caught our attention and needless to say, it was also alot of fun and a success even though we lost the bo3.

Hope you’ll enjoy, I found the vent to be hilarious as we normally aren’t this serious :P

Shoutcasters PoV of the match, also includes the first match which i forgot to record
http://www.twitch.tv/bloodytech/b/496321660

nice video Raiden, especially like the 2nd clip

YAKAZUKI YING

Korruptkai.8527:

Hi guys, I haven’t had much time to play much lately, but I just wanted to post another vid with some footage when I had some time to roaming. Since it was highy requested, I posted my build is in the video description. Also, thx for all the positive feedback so far.
Enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_fvoGhqTtY&feature=youtu.be

You should edit your first post and put it underneath your first video with a clear notification that you updated it with this video easier for others to see that way

Nice vid though!

Nice vid again Joe! Hope to see your engi vids soon again though!

Sick video Raiden, good job on the intro too!

Can you post build on an editor such as intothemist pls ty.

^^

Joe so bad, heals when he has 0 clones up

j/k <3 awesome vid

Great video Joe! Your best so far imho!

Eicca Topinen.8759:

Joffreys theif still looks better!

nuhuh my mesmer In starter armor da bessss xD

Nice vid Mugi.

TeamBattleAxe.3901:

Logi.5612:

Not to highjack the attention, you’re great Jon but gotta give some mad credit to Stal for tanking all that crap, without him you wouldn’t have these clips

Next Mugi video needs a Scarlet pop-up with the Kanye interrupt speech to talk about how good Stalagta is.

lmao

Not to highjack the attention, you’re great Jon but gotta give some mad credit to Stal for tanking all that crap, without him you wouldn’t have these clips

bump xd

would be nice if my alts could pickup the gear i bought for it without having to go through a huge list of buy orders that i recently made and want to let it sit till all the buy orders are completed so i can grab it all in 1 go when im on my main.

Probably because you have auto attack on whilst having someone targetted? :p

Ah i c, misread it. Odd bug o.o

Not too sure myself as it is abit unclear, but it looks looks like instant cast fears cannot be dodged. Dont remember being able to dodge throug reapers mark once without getting feared…

Basi venom is considered a stun. So rune6 works when you interrupt someone with th venom.

Not sure how to interpret your post, you say that those skills cannot be casted when channeling, but then you say it interrupts the channel.

In any case im pretty sure stealth skills interrupt channeling skills by nature to ensure you stay stealthed. As for illu leap, idk.

Nice video again Mugi!

Good video Joe! I like how you edited your clips on to the beat when Feed the Machine was playing, definitely one of my most favorite alt rock songs!

keep up the good work.

Infor.9703:

I’m surprised to see so much chatter in the warrior forum. I thought you all were too busy rolling your face on the keyboard. waaka waaka waaka

Seeing comments like these hurt tbh as not too long ago people would compliment someone who dared playing a warrior, especially if they are played well.

Now it doesn’t matter if a Warrior is played well, cause everyones biased and won’t see beyond the majority that is the fotm riders that do smash their face on the keyboard :x

Can’t wait for this dec patch ^^

Exclusive content, including stomps, is a driving force for a very, very large player base. Say you spent a long time on something, somthing that only the dedicated can achieve and is also recognized to be exclusive to those who are dedicated. Wouldnt you want to show it off and say: “hey, I did it, here look at it”.

Then few days later u find that this exclusive thing in which you put so much time, is suddenly obtainable with a mere “10 silver”. Wouldn’t that be quite a kick in the nuts?Basically saying your time and effort was worth 10 silver, no its worth nothing because everybody can get it whenever they want.

Well you probably won’t understand judging by your response. I couldn’t care less about pvp finishers, but i believe that there are alot of people who would be kitten ed if this were to be added. Not that they’ll ever make them sellable anyways :p

It’s a shame that my favorite weapon since the game released (hammer) will be nerfed like this. However 3.6k hours played on my warrior and i do not intend to stop playing it even with these nerfs. I’ll make it work

This will also be a good update to weed out all the fotm riders hopefully and restore my pride for playing warrior ;p

Doing that would completely devaluate the meaning of gaining ranks in spvp. Why bother gaining rank for the cool shiny finishers if you can simply buy em off the tp. Not only that, but it would be a direct punch in the face to th people who spent hours gaining glory in order to get that special stomp.

Nice vid Jon hehe keep m up

Uncle Shags.9017:

20 min of bad 1v1s, bad music, annoying memes and running from 1v2s unless they’re upleveled. I wouldn’t have said anything normally, because it’s rude, but then you decided to break out the OP talk. Winning 1v1s vs players that can’t dodge or bring stunbreakers does not OP make.

I edited my post to make it more clear why I consider the warrior OP in it’s current state. In a 1v1 perspective it definitely is OP, denying that takes away the credibility of your opinion. It is simply a combination of very powerful passives through trait lines and utilities along with it being the most straightforward and relatively easy to play class currently.

I can see why people find this video boring or bad. I think the footage is too concealed by the sheer regen that my warrior currently possesses aswell as my high armor to make it seem interesting as i’ve noticed that i barely fall under 90% hp throughout the video. This is also why I stated in my initial post that i was not able to find any clips throughout the week of me having any difficulties in fights. This is running OBS for 2 hours straight per day.

It may be true that the majority of the people do not dodge my CC in time or at all but I don’t think that it’s a case of them being bad or not in the situations seen in the montage. I usually do a short kite-away from my enemies and drop back with an earthshaker. 9/10 times this takes a person completely by surprise regardless of how good a player is. Not running stability or stun breaks is a build problem, it does not indicate any signs of a player being bad, just that his build is not prepared for the current hammer meta. In any case, the weapon combination i choose has so many options and opportunities to CC someone that i don’t believe any class could bring enough stability or breaks with the exception of another warrior or guardian. These fights may become stalemate yes, and I suppose it was a mistake on my part to add such clips into the montage.

Don’t believe i ran from any 1v2, with the exception of 1 clip where I kited a 1v3 till the downed mesmer came back xd. Can’t see the whole clip as i broke it down and fast forwarded it, but they chased me throughout the entire lake to the swamp part. Thats when the mesmer jumped back in and i could re-engage safely.

As said above, i’m running high armor and regen. 3 people at the same time adds up quickly in damage to a point where my regen cannot keep up. Hence why I kite or “run” away to reset the fight and wait for a better opportunity.

Anyways I can see why this video is disliked this much and I have learned from it. The next montage will hopefully be better. Thanks for taking the time to watch it in any case folks.

I normally would not bump these kinds of threads ever, but I thought I owe my video to the players i fought in this matchup so decided to post this here aswell. Features some CLAV, Jolly Q, and NA

Hi there folks!

It’s been awhile since i’ve played/made a video due to some IRL circumstances. However this past week i was able to experience the first round of the Silver League in WvW aswell as the changes that have been applied to the Warrior as of 15 October.

I have, for a long time, wanted to redo the build that I used in my first video. The Hammer and Sword/Shield combination. This has nothing to do with the fact that Hammer is the current Meta for the Warrior. It has simply always been my favorite weapon of choice.

I must say with the current changes to the Warrior that in the right hands its quite overpowered in some ways. This is solely in a 1v1 perspective and it is simply my own opinion.

I usually like to put in clips where I lose/die after a good struggle or fight but unfortunately (not to brag at all lol) I haven’t found myself really finding any of these fights. Does this relate to my opinion of Warrior being OP atm? Perhaps.

Anyways enough banter. The build used in the video is showcased live at the end of the video as usual, or you can find the “on paper” version in the description box.

Hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I had making it!

Ostricheggs.3742:

Yea, I was hoping to get you guys in trouble for being dumbkittens and embarrassing your guild in front of a good portion of the gw2 population. It was worth a shot

Bads will be bads

Helo Pal

Don’t take it personal though ^^

ohhh just noticed ur 3rd video that updated this post with. sick video once again and your editing is becoming better and better. Yishis eat your heart out, theres a new thief in town!
imo you should edit your initial post and put the 3rd video there, easier for people to take notice of!

Ok.

Good video joe! You should get the slickpack from TA instead of the super backpack, the fart smoke trail that comes out of it will deffo make u more flashy XD

Good video once again mugi!

Shu.6981:

Fact, you can not say tM is easy if you have not fought the Joe and Mugi duo.

What about the Scarlet/Mugi tM duo? :’(

Nilgoow.1037:

In my defense I only watched the first minute then panned though to the end.

Lol, so you judge a video based on the first minute that you’ve watched. Interesting.

Nilgoow.1037:

17 minutes of an anime cat running away.

Cause standing still inside a large grp of enemy players by yourself is the way to go nowadays!

Nice video yet again Joe!