Guild Wars 2

Lindbur.2537:

There’s nothing legendary about randomness.

There is nothing legendary about Legendarys anyway, so thats not a valid counterpoint.

Imho both crafting and rng drops are a bad way to get precursours.

Saturn.6591:

Faith Lightblade sounds nice to me.

Molch.2078:

Joy Heartfire
Justicia Morningstar

Why Morningstar? You know, the latin version of that name is Lucifer, which is a name commonly used for the devil. Dunno if that would fit a Guardian.

Good to know…

Joy Heartfire
Justicia Morningstar

Some random Ideas. But tbh I like Faith as a first name. Faith Angelwing. Faith White. Faith Niceguy. I don’t know, I’m not good at this…

Bright could be a fitting first name, too. Bright Justblade, Bright van Heavens.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Anicetus.1253:

knives.6345:

Anicetus.1253:

I’d take the one with the better communicational abilities. And if both understand english, I take the one with the more fashionable armor.

So you interview people for some time before getting inside?

Yes.

You have to at least take them to dinner before getting inside. What kind of manners do you have!

“Shamed be he who thinks evil of it.”

Or… I don’t know… don’t join Zerker only groups?

Dat picture….

Good thing I play only PvE with guardian.

I just copy pasted your post and send him a letter. He is offline right now.

So, some people can’t have fun in dungeons, because some other people want to stack in a corner, yes?

… some people have problems…

So, you don’t like Zerker because you think players mentality force you to use it?

Do you know how long do you need to find a group that doesn’t care about your build?
- 2 minutes max.

Do you know why you don’t join those groups, even if they are clearly available?
- because they take 5x longer than your average speedrun pug

Do you know what would change if they nerf zerkergear?
- Nothing.

Have a nice day.

This reminds me of something…

I dont know what the OP asked for, but most guys here are talking about PvE-Dungeons. And 30/10/00/30 Axe/Axe + Rifle with traveler runes (and… Signet of Stamina?) for PvE-Dungeons is not that good.

Btw lol at 200% fury uptime. Does that mean I have + 40% critchanche?

If you like the challenge, I’d suggest elementalist. A well played ele outperforms every other class with ease.

If you clean your conditions with Lyssa rune, I have bad news for you

I support this idea. Everything that involves stats, equipment, sigills, runes usw. should be easy to get.

With WvW-Badges you can purchase skins, thats something different. Imagine the only way to get Scholar would be 120 WvW badges per rune. Good idea, eh?^^

With 25 points in virtues, the vigor still lasts 7.5/10 seconds. Why is 100% vigor uptime a must have and really good, but 75% uptime not?
This doesn’t make sense.

This update will achieve nothing, change nothing, and will hopefully now jump into a big black hole and return to nothing.

Kadin.2356:

CptAurellian.9537:

10% is too much. 0% would be the right amount, since zerker damage never was a problem.

Condi-bunkers were already king. Now they will be supreme overlords. All hail the condi spam engi-necro-pu mesmer-s/s/lb warrior overlords! May their new rein be benevolent and wise!

To be fair, those specs get nerfed, too.

Up

I hope its okay to up this thread once in a while as long as people are interested enough to vote.

http://strawpoll.me/1031973

Hi, I think it would be really interesting to create a poll for this topic, since everyone seems to talk about nothing else these days

Please DO NOT DISCUSS anything here, there are enough topics to do that.

General

• Endurance now regenrates 50% faster
• Players are not longer invulnerable while dodging
• Decreased the AoE of most spells

… now THAT would be a game changing update. Not sure if good or bad, but a change for sure

Nemesis.8593:

Molch.2078:

Nemesis.8593:

Now try to do this in Dredge Fractal scale 50

Even if it wont work there, it stil does for every dungeon and low lvl fotm aka ~90% of the endgame. I think thats enough to make a point.

Videos like this or the Arah p2 (facetanking lupicus in melee range, really?…) is for people who think berserkergear makes the game to easy. Because if my Zerkwarrior tries to facetank stuff, he dies. Fast.

Thats the whole point of those Videos, at least for me.

So it is justified because it requires “more skill” then just standing still with a macro on ?

Does it require that much “skill” to hit some timings ? I agree… not everyone can do it, until they get use to the timings, but after that it’s like like a jumping puzzle… no skill involved because you’ve done it once but that’s not the point…

Point is PvE is broken… that’s what i keep saying for a few months now… 1 playstyle is far more rewarding then all others, and that playstyle also makes the game look like trash: skip… stack on one pixel around corner and kill mobs before they can even reach us, put boss into the wall burst + reflect his own damage back so hard that he dies from himself.
Any outsider that sees this wouldn’t even think twice about buying this game…

I have not “justified” anything in any way. I say, that full zerk speedrun is harder than full clerics facetankrun, I dont claim any of those two hard at all.

I actually agree on PvE beeing broken, but not for the reason most people do. Changing berserker gear will change NOTHING.

If you kill a boss with 1-2 true mechanics 50 times, ofc he gets easy, no matter how you do it. Do you want to know what I think is easy? Solo Lupicus on Warrior. No stacking, no reflection, no cornerpull and I still can do it half brain afk, not because I’m an awesome pro player or anything, but because I did it 100times.

Repetition makes everything dull. Repetition + stupid AI makes everything dull really really fast.

Nemesis.8593:

Now try to do this in Dredge Fractal scale 50

Even if it wont work there, it stil does for every dungeon and low lvl fotm aka ~90% of the endgame. I think thats enough to make a point.

Videos like this or the Arah p2 (facetanking lupicus in melee range, really?…) is for people who think berserkergear makes the game to easy. Because if my Zerkwarrior tries to facetank stuff, he dies. Fast.

Thats the whole point of those Videos, at least for me.

Do you remember when people killed only the first boss in Arah p3 to farm tokens? That will happen.

And why do you think skipping is an exploit when Anet clearly stated, that it’s not? The only exploitish skips are things like glitching yourself under the map and such, and this needs to be fixed directly, not in a bandaid.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fQAQBdiRUymRb4sBDHA this.

Ezvid sounds like a decent freeware recording tool. Anyone here who uses/has used it?

There is a HUUUUGE difference between tanking and not dying…

Do you know that Axe does more damage than Greatsword?

Then let it be 10%. I don’t know. It doesnt matter.
(Just change assassins and accuracy to bloodlust, berserker and force, and you’ll do ~5% more dmg.)

My intention is the same thing guang just said.

SrebX.6498:

Can anyone explain whats going on here? because personally I was really impressed with the build…. [Btw, I’m not really sure whats the current Guardian Meta …]

The current Guardian Meta deals probably 30% more damage while still granting a better variety of support. Thats why noone likes his build.

I think noobs have the hardest time in dungeons. Then necros.

Some people should learn the difference between stacking and using a safe spot. Stacking nulls Colossus Rumbles seismic attack? No. Just go stack in the middle of the room and see how stacking nulls anything…
It’s not stacking. It’s the safespot that does that. And safespots are bad. Stacking however, is not.

Since you’re using the forum to ask a question, I think you might want to hear some opinions. Therefore I’ll cut out all the “play how you want, it’s important you’re having fun bla bla” and give you my opinion on shamans gear, okay? Okay.

Remove it from the game.

Here you go. Vitality is a bad stat. Healingpower is not that great, too. No toughness to protect this big hp pool. And conditiondamage is useless in PvE. Probably the worst gear you can get.

I hope you don’t mind the harsh tone too much, but I just can’t stand answers like the one from DreamyAbaddon.

A well played full berserker Guardian will support your group even better as that build posted by An Siorai Tharian AND deal 3x the damage.

On the other hand max dps is much harder to play. Thats probably not suited for everyone.

Wrong subforum?

Gnat.9405:

Is this a discussion about Necromancers?

No it’s not, sorry. Edited. But i think my point is still valid.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

NoTrigger.8396:

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Mesmer is probably the best class in the game currently and guardian is probably one of the worst. That may change in the future but for the time being that’s the state of things. Both are decent for your playstyle though if you’re looking to the long term.

alot of stuff you say is right. but this is just the most stupid thing i have ever seen from you.

Yeah, well, I get that a lot but I’m always right in the end, huh?

Even if you’re right, throwing such a statement without proof into a discussion is not very smart, is it?

10k scepter auto. Okay.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Guide-DPS-Necro-for-PvE

Try this for your Necro. If you dont like it, you can still reroll to whatever you want.

Warrior is an one-man Army. You’re very strong on your own and contribute to the group by killing things faster and make your friends kill things faster, which is pretty important. But you cant help them in a direct way, when someone is down, all you can do is walk to him and press rezz.

For Mesmer see Casmurro’s post.

Guardians on the other hand are Warriormesmers with the best out of both worlds
Good dps, Reflection, CC, Might, Aegis and so on. On the other side, to achieve all this, you need to sacrifice every bit of survivability – a good guardian is not easy to play. But playing a high dps class who still supports like a champ is imho frigging awesome! It’s like Super-Ninja-Jesus with a plate armor.

Nemesis.8593:

The fact that you can complete 80% (100% according to some) of the content in this game without the need of build diversity aka full berserker… is not broken ?

Im very happy that I don’t need to farm 15 different sets of armor.

The fact that because of the above reason, in the current PvE diversity is not embraced but criticized… is not broken ?

There aren’t many games where you have no meta. There will always be THE best.

The fact that 1 year into the game you can still do corner stacking (exploit ??) to favor the above two statements… is not broken ?

Why is cornerstacking an exploit? Because it is efficient? Is mightstacking an exploit? Im not talking about bugging mobs so they cant hit you, btw.

Nemesis.8593:

The fact that all of the above statements lead to people mindlessly doing only part of the overall content… over and over again… is not broken ?

What? People do almost every Dungeon, what do you mean by this? What you describe is grind. People grind because they want shinies. Not because PvE is broken.

Nemesis.8593:

The fact that in the current PvE being at range most of the time offers no benefit vs being in melee (that’s why they can go full berserker everywhere… ask spoj how he does fractals berserker melee necro… that’s what he said, so… if someone can do it, everyone can do it)… is not broken ?

Yes, but that has nothing to do with nero. Every class has a useless range weaponset.

Nemesis.8593:

The fact that in the current PvE system… tanking is not requied, neither is debuffing… or healing… which puts some classes that act as a debuffer at a heavy disadvantage (as in who would want a necromancer for chill, blind and weakness – those aren’t even considered group support, because they are not needed or equivalent to the warrior group support, which favors corner stacking full berserker steam roll)… this is not broken ?

Some classes? No. Just one.

I don’t say PvE is fine as it is, but it’s not that broken.

Okay Nemesis, let me get this straight: Every class but Necromancer is usefull in PvE, therefore PvE is broken?

This makes no sense, sorry.

Who cares about esper?

I want to play a pink cat-bunny with uberclaws that makes people cry on forums because op stealth!!!

Old timewarp with 100% boost. Please?

25 stacks might wont do any good if your skills ae bad. And skill 1 doesnt do much dmg.

Chasind.3128:

Recently I’ve noticed a large increase in parties selling Specifically Arah paths 4 & 2. 6 gold or more at a final boss when the reward offers 3 gold or less. Isn’t this some sort of sham?
If not, I’ll just refresh my LFG on Arah as many times until I see a group who isn’t charging for a simple path run & forget about this.

If anything, people shouldn’t sell a path for more than the reward at the end of the path.

Why?

Nosoyelarty.7268:

mecha Lupicus.

YESPLEASE

But the reason was probably people unlocking this wp in path 1 to make the skips easier.

They should nerf necros, this class is op in dungeons…

Erebus.9276:

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oZii.2864:

Molch.2078:

oZii.2864:

Could you do Strength vs Ruby Orbs? I know nothing beats Scholars and probably never will.

Post your Power/prec/critdmg and average buffs, and I could calculate it for your build.

2000 power No Might, 50 crit chance, 73 crit damage, Sigil of force, 10% bonus with stone splinters.

Those are the values without rune/orb? If so, we have + 120/84/12% from orbs and + 155/20%/5% from rune of strenght.

For starters, we ignore the 4th bonus.

Effective Power for orbs: 2120 x (1 + 0.54 × 1.35) = 3665
For the rune: 2155 x ( 1 + 0.5 × 1.23) x 1.05 = 3654

Without any might, orbs are a little bit better. (0.3%) If the 4th bonus just grants one stack of might on average, the rune is already better. But since those two numbers are very close, things like Banner of Discipline, For Greater Justice, Spotter etc. would change them very fast.

Lunchbox.9543:

Zorby.8236:

Solandri.9640:

They said 80% of 2v2s had a ranger in it. So 0.8 * 0.25 = 20% of players were rangers, which is pretty close to what their 1 year anniversary stats said (19% if I remember).

What the H is this? 80% of the 2v2 were rangers and they constitute 1/4 of the playerbase -> 20% of players are rangers? That makes no sense…

Alright, using the example provided:

If 80% of all 2v2 had a single Ranger, then 25% of combatants were a Ranger. Therefor, 20% of players were Rangers.

0.8 (80% of 2v2) * 0.25 (25% Ranger profession) = 0.2 (20% total Ranger population.)

Whether this is accurate or not is up for debate, however it does parallel with the previously stated population percentage released by Anet at the end of August.

They said 20% had a ranger (not a single ranger) in it.

If x is the probability to get one ranger, 1-x is the probability to get NO ranger and (1-x)^4 to get no ranger in a 4 man grp. Therefore 1 – (1-x)^4 is the probability to get at least one ranger. If this probability is 0.8, x equals 0.33. (33%).

Sorry, just a random nerd passig by, ignore me if thats not relevant to the discussion.