Guild Wars 2

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.

Blasting Staff is a huge boost to MS, something around 30-40%. If thats worth it? I don’t know, but I like to be able to use vigor on crit for more difficult fights.

Dub.1273:

cursE.1794:

glass ele builds are perfectly viable, since bosses die in under 10 secs, during which time you can avoid all dmg via 2x dodges, fgs 3, hiding inside wall/feedback, relying on aegis from guard, relying on blinds from lh/guard

Can you show me the part of the OP’s post where he says that he only runs fractals/dungeons with totally organized groups in which he can rely on his teammates 100% so he doesn’t have to care about survivability at all? Because i don’t find it.

Can you show me the part where we said an organized team was required? It comes down to player skill, if someone relys on the group for staying alive, he’s a bad player.

Could you do me a favour? Go lfg: “arah p4, noobs/unexperienced welcome”. Use your Full glass LH ele. Don’t give any hint/tips. And then fraps it. I would love to see how you fight against a trashpack of ele/ilu/hunter/mage using LH, while your team uses no dps builds, no LoS, no reflects, ranger spamms all his lb skills on cd, shoutheal clerics warri with rifle from the backline etc. One blind every 2.7 sec op agains risen Illusionist. And good luck killing them while swirling winds is up.

LH ele depends on his team. Face it.

Nick.6972:

Is it just me or is this “Zerker only or leave” thing only on official forums?
Almost 1000 hour total playtime and no one has ever asked me to ping my gear.
Weird.

So, you want me to kick people based on their gear?

I am convinced clerics and pvt is suboptimal, and if someone wishes to discuss that topic, count me in. But that doesn’t stop me from playing (and having fun) with them.

It’s almost funny. First you don’t want us to flame people based on the gear they use, and then, when we don’t, you wonder why you cannot see that behaviour ingame…

…maybe all the elitist forumscumbags aren’t that mean at all…

I did it with D/F without any conjured weapons. (well, almost. I died at ^20% -.-) All I used from dagger was Air 1 for dps. If you use a Scepter, all you loose is damage. Much damage.

That means phase 1 with the locust is a pain in the armpit and alltogether it takes a few moths to kill him, but yes, it should be possible.

But… why?

Changing traits is easy and cheap, changing gear is not. At least not for everyone. Maybe you’re better off playing AH with zerker for starters.

Or just go all dps and get a good group that picks you up once in a while. Learning by doing. I’d rather play with a zerk guard who dies but is actually trying and rezz him a few times more then a pvt wannabe tank who is deadweight the whole run.

Bhawb.7408:

Neither of which is innately harder than anything that can be done in any other game mode. All three of the game modes have parts that are very easy (general PvE, anything unorganized WvW, hotjoins), and things that are hard (high level fractals/“challenges”, GvG, high level tPvP).

It’s a pitty this is too much text for a signature. I am so sick and tired of all this “XY is so easy you can do what ever you want anyway” bs…

@topic: I play conditionmancer, because its fun. If I want to be usefull, I don’t use a necromancer.

It says initial self heal. You use it and bam, 1.8k heal. And everytime you get hit by something, you are healed for the amount of damage it negated.

Therefore you can’t compare it to the signet. It depends entirely on the situation.

Lampshade.7569:

Warrior is number one, no contest. Not in the sense of who does most DPS in optimal setting, but certainly in the sense who does the most DPS on average. Thieves/eles/guards/mesmers can dish out more if the situation is right and if they know what they are doing. But what I’m saying is: Only 10% of players know how to out-dps a warrior with their class in 50% of situations. What makes warrior the most desirable dps in a random group are not just his unique buffs, but his reliability: It’s hard to die, it’s hard to screw up, it’s hard to do low dps. Warriors for the win.

I saw a stream once of a Warrior doing CoE. He used Zerker gear, probably a defensive build and GS only. For Alpha he was too afraight to use 100b so he used gs auto only. My condition necro could have out dpsed this guy.

You can screw up everything…

Nah, lets sell an instant-from-80-to-100-scroll in the gemshop.

It’s apothecary, not shaman. Shaman has vitality mainstat.

And you spent almost 1500 Healingpower for two skils. One of them is elite and has 180 sec CD.

I don’t think thats worth it.

Leamas.5803:

Molch.2078:

All I see is “Oh noez those people can do dungeons in 1/3 of the time I need, thats so unfair, QQ.”

Why do you want to destroy the way I want to play this game? Srsly, thats just as stupid as the suggestion to remove everything but berserkers gear from the game.

I don’t ask Anet to nerf your fun, please don’t ask them to kill mine.

Play the way you want, my friends, play the way you want.

The problem with your entire statement is that ANet severely hindered condition users, in PvE and dungeons only IMO, by implementing such a low stack, especially on bleeding when all professions can cause bleeding in one form or another. 10 condition users will hit that stack in no time and everything else is useless. Where 10 zerker builds suffer no such limitation on their attacks and cause vastly more damage. We’re not asking to destroy the way you want to play, we’re asking to have the builds somewhat balanced so there are more viable builds in the game, which they are far from at the moment.

So, Condition damage is broken, therefore we need to break everything else to balance it?

I am 100% fine with removing stacks for condition damage. I don’t think they are a good Idea at all. Give conditions a buff and I am the first one around playing conditionmancer. I like that build. But it’s bad (PvE PoV).

All I see is “Oh noez those people can do dungeons in 1/3 of the time I need, thats so unfair, QQ.”

Why do you want to destroy the way I want to play this game? Srsly, thats just as stupid as the suggestion to remove everything but berserkers gear from the game.

I don’t ask Anet to nerf your fun, please don’t ask them to kill mine.

Play the way you want, my friends, play the way you want.

Lalocat.6793:

I kind of want to just try doing it but there aren’t really any groups in lfg that aren’t selling spots. I even saw someone trying to sell spots for story for 1g, which I know from personal experience is super easy. I watched for awhile and saw lots of sellers and no real groups.

There was once a player, a long time ago (2-3 days, maybe), who was able to find a group for Arah via the lfg-Tool, despite all the nasty scumbag sellers. Let me tell you his story…

He made his own group.

THE END

Molch.2078:

knbBlackTemplar.3059:

Maybe anet should just GIVE ascended weapon for you?

Yes. Why not. I don’t want to work in a frigging game to play the actual frigging game.

Hm okay, I’m fine with the crit, but 20% dmg is a big number. How hard does your current trait hit on interupts?

But, tbh, Illusionary Ellasticy is not that awesome either. This one I would swich for Precise Wrack.

Why don’t you use the traits that boost Mindwracks damage and critchanche?

I would love to run some dungeons with you, Fade, especially THE NEW TA-AETHERBLADE.

It’s a pitty you deleted the video <3

But on a serious note, listen to durend. He’s right.

Havvy.4897:

Molch.2078:

If I legit solo a path in Arah, want to sell it via the lfg-Tool and some whiteknights kick me for “fun”, thats okay with Anet, because I’m selling paths at my own risk.

With the same logic, you join dungeonsgroups at your own risk, therefore its 100% fine to kick you at the end and sell the spot.

Just because Anet is okay with it doesn’t mean we as the community should be okay with either of those.

You’re right, and I am not okay with either of those, but OP asked for an official statement.

If I legit solo a path in Arah, want to sell it via the lfg-Tool and some whiteknights kick me for “fun”, thats okay with Anet, because I’m selling paths at my own risk.

With the same logic, you join dungeonsgroups at your own risk, therefore its 100% fine to kick you at the end and sell the spot.

Sword needs both direct and bleed-damage. Your effective power is quite low and you have almost no conditiondamage. Your damage with this build is really bad.

Depending on the content you want to do I suggest either using an Axe for a better synergy with direct dmg or Rabit/Carrion gear that provides both power/prec and Condition dmg.

The Demonic Spirit.3157:

Molch.2078:

Strenght in Numbers (Valor IV) is much better than Purity. 150 Toughnes for everyone AND protection is not bad.

Signet Mastery (Radiance II) isn’t worth it, you have so much healing and defense, those 5 points are better in Virtues. More protection and Regenration is always good.

I am not sure why you use a Superior Sigill of Battle, you don’t do any damage. Better swap them for a Superior Sigil of Renewal.

Just my 2 cent. But why don’t you post this build in the Guardian subforum?

Strength in numbers says > Nearby allies gain toughness based on your effective level . What does it mean by effective level ?

I put it in this subforum as I didn’t intend to just talk about guardian , I was talking about the best supporter/protector in the entire game.
As for the Signet , there isn’t any better trait to get.

Strengh in Numbers grants every ally in range 150 Toughness in a LvL 80 environment. And I think Boons on Virtue activation is better than -20% signetrecharge. You dont need to put 10 points in radiance.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Entropy

Strenght in Numbers (Valor IV) is much better than Purity. 150 Toughnes for everyone AND protection is not bad.

Signet Mastery (Radiance II) isn’t worth it, you have so much healing and defense, those 5 points are better in Virtues. More protection and Regenration is always good.

I am not sure why you use a Superior Sigill of Battle, you don’t do any damage. Better swap them for a Superior Sigil of Renewal.

Just my 2 cent. But why don’t you post this build in the Guardian subforum?

korelg.7862:

just for the sake of puting some numbers on the table, my #1 Sword chain does about 1k+1k+2.5k = 4.5k average, more with 25 bloodlust and 25 might, what about you?

…run. Run for your life… they’re going to eat you alive.

High level fotm gives you a sigil that stacks toughness.

…okay…

Needs more blue bubblz!

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/necromancer/Lets-see-your-Necromancers

The only things you could regret are the armor/trinkets and the runes. Utilityskills and traits can be swapped for no/low cost.

Is this for PvE/Dungeons/WvW?

Romo.3709:

In my opinion they should keep the stats the same as the exotics, so people would stop complaining…

This. This x1000…

Dromar.1027:

Don’t sit there and support bad ideas just because leveling doesn’t fulfill the fun factor anymore. That’s a whole other issue that needs to be addressed instead of putting a cheap band-aid over it.

Some people like leveling the way it is. You find some examples in this thread. For them, there is no issue, and adressing it would probably make the game worse in their eyes.

This “cheap band-aid” makes everyone happy:

• Me, I can be instant 80.
• Everyone who wants to lvl normal, because he can still do it.
• Anet, because they sell more gems.

I don’t see why this is a bad idea.

Dromar.1027:

Molch.2078:

Dromar.1027:

Downplaying the complexity of the game to support instant 80 cash shop items is so asinine it makes me want bang my head against the wall.

Feel free to bang your head against a wall of your choice all day, but, if you care for my advice, use the time to read my post again.

I made two statements.

1. Instant 80 scrolls wouldn’t cause a flood of bads.
2. I want instant 80 scrolls because I don’t like leveling.

I hope I made my point of view a litte bit more obvious now.

1. Completely based on theory.
2. Then go play a game w/o leveling.

Of course it is based on theory. What isn’t? Do you have actuall data to prove that, in case we release this scroll, the number of bads will increase? I don’t think so. Theory is all we have, and if theory is not relevant, well, then I’ll gladly retreat that part of my statement, since the theory it refers to is invalid, too.

And for your #2: Well, this IS the ‘suggestion’-part of the forum, isn’t_it? (yay for the censor^^)

Dromar.1027:

Downplaying the complexity of the game to support instant 80 cash shop items is so asinine it makes me want bang my head against the wall.

Feel free to bang your head against a wall of your choice all day, but, if you care for my advice, use the time to read my post again.

I made two statements.

1. Instant 80 scrolls wouldn’t cause a flood of bads.
2. I want instant 80 scrolls because I don’t like leveling.

I hope I made my point of view a litte bit more obvious now.

Adine.2184:

Oniyui.8279:

You see a bush rustling in the wind… and realize there is no wind.

You interact with the suspicious bush… and…

A wild Mini Caithe appears!

This just sounds wrong………

Made my day

The statement, that this game would be full of 80 noobs and dungeonfailbobs bc everyone could skip the leveling process is simply not true.

If you need 80 (eighty!) levels to learn 4 weapons and 20 Utilitiskills, than this game is maybe a little bit complex for you.

You don’t learn anything about dungeons while leveling. If player A levels his char in, lets say, one week, to 80, and player B uses the instant 80 scroll and then spends only half a week in dungeons, well, which one would you rather have in your group?

It’s not about a mesmer knowig that he has a skill named Feedback. He needs to know when to use it, or otherwise he’s just going to produce pretty purple bubbles at random.

Oh, and why do you think we have so many LB-bear Ranger in dungeons? They tried this tactic in open PvE while leveling, it worked, and now they are convinced that this build is viable. Because, you know, it worked up to now, why should I listen to some random guy I met in Arah? What, now he wants me to use reflection? Isn’t that the thing Guardians have? I’m a Ranger, kitten, what a noob…

I support this idea. Instant 80 scrolls would be awesome. If thats too much, convert the instant 20 scrolls to + 20 lvl scrolls. I have enough of them…

You know, play the way I want. And I DON’T want to play open PvE. I want to play both dungeons and WvW on a competitive level.

AndrewSX.3794:

Party wipe = Pentakill i suppose then.

No, it’s called a Rampage.

‘Grabs popcorn.’

Don’t worry, they fixed the ship-JP in arah p2. I’m sure they want you now^^

I like this idea, but please make them move slower than the other wings.
I want to look like a majestic angel, not like a headless chicken

LunarNacht.8913:

Let them do an artwork!
Yeah!

YEAH! I CAN DO THAT!
Now gimmegimmegimme plz

Do you want to play with filthy elitists?

Lucius.2140:

Molch.2078:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Rooks Zaer.5846:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

At least for condition damage specs

Could you repeat this for a non-condition spec (warrior maybe?)…preferably with berserker stats?

It’s certainly something I can look into, but it gets much more complicated for direct damage due to the sheer number of factors to consider. Just to give you an idea you need to consider:

1. Power
2. Crit Chance
3. Crit Damage
4. Weapon damage
5. Armor of target

If you consider this complicated, then I’m not sure how serious I can take your calculation based on condition damage.

Hint: The increase for direct dmg doesn’t care about your targets armour.

Actually hes right, because he need to take in consideration for the total damage, the condition damage. So if its true in direct damage you use a constant for armor, when you mix it for total damage, you cant do that, because the bigger the armor, the more condition damage contribute to total damage in opposition to direct damage.

Since almost everything have some condition damage, a complete analisis need to take a armor value that is considerated “typical” or use a scaling of “typical values” explaining how the fluctuation will be with changes of armor values.

You are right. But he hasn’t looked at direct dmg of conditionbuilds either.

ZudetGambeous.9573:

Rooks Zaer.5846:

ZudetGambeous.9573:

At least for condition damage specs

Could you repeat this for a non-condition spec (warrior maybe?)…preferably with berserker stats?

It’s certainly something I can look into, but it gets much more complicated for direct damage due to the sheer number of factors to consider. Just to give you an idea you need to consider:

1. Power
2. Crit Chance
3. Crit Damage
4. Weapon damage
5. Armor of target

If you consider this complicated, then I’m not sure how serious I can take your calculation based on condition damage.

Hint: The increase for direct dmg doesn’t care about your targets armour.

Dagins.5163:

This build is going to grave. It is well deserved.

@up
These changes will come in 1 month.

Are you refering to my post? Because I know that this patch is far away and I don’t see how my build suffers. THe only thing you can’t do anymore is to HS multiple times in your smokefield, and thats nothing more but a gimmick – not the core of D/P.

I startet playing a D/P thief in WvW a few weeks ago as a one/two man roaming build and the nerf to infusion of shadow has zero impact on my gameplay whatsoever. Zero.

Am I doing this wrong?

Dungeon is fine. All you need is someone who shows you how to beat it.

I got nothing. Good day, sir.

PlagueParade.7942:

Short Bow: I liked the idea of The Dreamer so how about an evil version of this (The Nightmare). Instead of a unicorn shooting out leaving streaks of rainbows you have a black nightmare horse blazing out with a death rattle like neigh leaving a trail of fire and your foot prints are hoof prints of fire and scorch marks.

Here, have this, thank me later.

Redenaz.8631:

No wonder they were able to build it so quickly: Darn thing is hollow inside. :P

Most accurate description of the Living World I’ve ever seen. +1

Zelyhn.8069:

Molch.2078:

Zelyhn.8069:

DiogoSilva.7089:

haviz.1340:

Staff is still bad as ever in pve.

A staff ele can out-dps HB warriors by simply spamming two buttons, and can do so by staying at range while providing infinite fire fields.

It’s one of the best pve builds in this game since the buffs to blasting staff and persisting flames in the last patch.

This post is the perfect example of people miss-interpreting the spreadsheets.
Well I can’t blame you too much, considering the amount of wrong information being published in some guides like on guru for example …

DPS is about numbers. About math. a>b. If the sheed say that your number is smaller than guangs, I dont see how you could miss-interpret this. Care to explain?

Staff is ok in pve.

Well to start off, Guang’s maths is like religion.
Then trust me he is not the first to say that staff deals damage, and he is definitely not the first to notice how the patch buffed that damage.
Also to out-dps warriors staff eles need more than just lava font and fireball: they need meteor shower. That’s why I say you misinterpreted the maths.
Furthermore they need to be within 600 range, or actually within 360 range to benefit from might combos, so at the same range as a dagger wielder.
Staff provides fewer of the necessary conditions to get max buffs than other weapon sets.
Staff has very little hard control and its use comes at a high cost.
Staff requires the targets to be immobile.
So no, staff is not the best pve build around. Actually it is thought to be one of the worst.

DnT said they got 9k lavafont/tick and 8k autohits with this build. Even I get ~5k without might and bufffood. And I play 20 points in arcan. You don’t need meteor shower.

And be carefull, I said staff is okay. Not more, not less. You say staff is one of the worst pve builds? Well, I can easily name 10 weaker builds. Can you name 10 better ones?

Zelyhn.8069:

DiogoSilva.7089:

haviz.1340:

Staff is still bad as ever in pve.

A staff ele can out-dps HB warriors by simply spamming two buttons, and can do so by staying at range while providing infinite fire fields.

It’s one of the best pve builds in this game since the buffs to blasting staff and persisting flames in the last patch.

This post is the perfect example of people miss-interpreting the spreadsheets.
Well I can’t blame you too much, considering the amount of wrong information being published in some guides like on guru for example …

DPS is about numbers. About math. a>b. If the sheed say that your number is smaller than guangs, I dont see how you could miss-interpret this. Care to explain?

Staff is ok in pve.