Guild Wars 2

Zirith.6429:

I actually get really confused by this at times because I turned off the default red blue colouring of armor, it makes it a lot easier but I dont like how it looks haha. also just press b and you can see what team you are on ez

Or look at your teammates on the left?

piffdaddy.8014:

To be honest, I bet the anti-skyhammer ring would actually sell and make anet some money. It could be “allows the wearer to choose one map that will no longer appear in the solo arena rotation”. Then, it wouldn’t be limited to skyhammer and could actually appeal to a lot of people. Just a thought.

You shouldn’t have to pay for such a silly option. Many games have omit options by default.

I’m curious whether devs lol at these posts or if they cry a bit inside.. maybe both? Seemed that way in the stream when they talked about warriors!

Let’s just eliminate necros #qq #stopnerf

I’ve just been wondering how long the current maps will be dragged out. I don’t think anything along the lines of new game modes will be out in the next big balance patch, but perhaps the next one down the road (4-5 months)?

azuzephyr.7280:

I ran out of breath reading that in my head

Spooko.5436:

Skyhammer is fine, remove Spirit Watch

remove is fine, Skyhammer Spirit Watch

Perhaps introduce some fixes that will be introduced later on in a bigger package but keep it PvP only – PvE/WvW would catch up when the balancing is due (march or w/e).

I mean PvP is separate, why not implement PvP Hotfixes?

Josh Davis.6015:

Pyriall.5027:

IB4 Grouchasaurus comes in to try and calm the masses with some vague reference to future updates that they’re unsure of and he used to hate hearing when he was a player….

This was eerie. Are you in the air ducts?

We all are.

It’s awful. This game has so much potential in terms of PvP, yet the game is in a much worse state than when I first purchased it last summer. Is it THAT hard to come up with new and interesting ideas to make PvP fun again? You constantly have 2-3 classes in ridiculous OP metas that NO ONE asked for – why is this? At the end of the day you, Devs, are shooting yourselves in the feet by letting this mess we all call tPvP and sPvP rot even further. A couple more months for a patch? Sure.

Don’t expect players to stick around in a game-type that is essentially dead by choice.

0/10 for you guys

QQ

Marcos.3690:

I don’t think I can bear with another 2-3 months of total imbalance to be honest.

dis is so tru
dey prebably hev laik 2 pelpoel workn on it u no

Sasajoe.1509:

Just patched the game & guess my surprise no new sigils no new traits / skills nothing … what a disappointment … why do they promise balance changes & then it turns out they lie ??

Those changes? Lol you gotta wait a couple months.. at least.

cuge.5398:

According to the patch notes just released looks like we wont have any balance change….. nice… another proof that pvp is not important here…
yeh this is a QQ thread.

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I play sPvP on a daily basis for multiple hours a day but guess what – I STILL haven’t had a chance to use the new heals because I simply cannot deal with the boredom of PvE.

Litany of Wrath, for example, would fit in perfectly in my DPS Guardian build. But I can’t try it because of this ADDITIONAL layer of grinding. Where the heck did it come from? Why is it even here? Your reasoning for implementing the ‘unlock’ features in sPvP is just bad. I tell all my friends that are trying to get into sPvP that they won’t get ‘owned’ or ‘destroyed’ thanks to the leveled footing we all get to start on.

If you don’t get rid of unlocks in sPvP where will it take it a few months, or years down the road? Especially if it pertains to sigils, armor runes, etc, etc, and not solely skins/purely aesthetic items?

Just like you pulled away from eliminating ranks, you should do the same with this lousy update. Seriously.

Nobody wants it.

Just focus their minions and kill them off. It really is NOT that hard, people.

i saw it omg super exited

I wonder why Necros cant DS stomp. Other classes have MANY utilities that can be triggered during a stomp but we don’t and the fact that we have only one real source of stability without blowing a well or a major utility is a bit frustrating.

I understand that stomping shouldn’t be a Necro strong point but we really don’t have many ways to get one off – sometimes I find myself having to use dagger offhand #4 just to blind my enemy before I get CC’d.

I think DPS Guardian is perfect aside from the fact that we don’t have soft CC. As I’m sure you have read around, there are easy fixes that would allow Guardians to sit on target more efficiently. Having to use sigils like Hydromancy is a bit annoying since there are other sigils that are simply way better.

Here are some of the things I have read around:

Add a cripple effect to GS #5 leash that ticks every 2-3 seconds.

Zealot’s Speed- 5 seconds of swiftness on weapon swap. (why is it called Zealot’s Speed if it triggers Symbol of Wrath?)

Glacial Heart- Now applies to all weapons, reduce CD to 10-15 seconds. Also move it to Zeal to make that line more appealing.

There are definitely other classes that need more attention than DPS Guard (nerf zoo builds, warriors, buff eles) but I still believe soft CC would polish DPS builds, whether it’s a medi build or spirit weapon.

Muchacho.2390:

Nabbo.2845:

Why use staff? Axe provides a ton of retaliation in team fights and #2 is a great way to gain lifeforce while keeping the damage up. Running Horn provides a great interrupt as well as swiftness, AoE cripple and lifeforce gain. Pair this with dagger dagger and you have weakness to suppress melee burst and a great condi transfer+blind.

I run 20/20/0/0/30 with Soldier’s Amulet + Berserker’s Jewel and after 500hrs~ of all sorts of power build variations I have found this particular build (using II in Soul Reaping) to be the strongest in terms of damage output and survivability

Maybe because staff has all the marks?

If you are running a power build you won’t be seeing much damage come from staff. I can’t argue that it’s a great utility and I used to use it myself, but I find Axe + x to provide better damage while still behind useful in other ways. Besides, if you trait into it, you could have #2 on a 6 second cooldown and it can be an enormous source of damage.

Why use staff? Axe provides a ton of retaliation in team fights and #2 is a great way to gain lifeforce while keeping the damage up. Running Horn provides a great interrupt as well as swiftness, AoE cripple and lifeforce gain. Pair this with dagger dagger and you have weakness to suppress melee burst and a great condi transfer+blind.

EDIT: Forgot to mention, putting 20 points in Curses allows you to choose Spectral Attunement which can provide more support through more seconds of uptime in spectral abilities (i.e. 50% HP spectral armor trigger, spectral armor, spectral wall).

I run 20/20/0/0/30 with Soldier’s Amulet + Berserker’s Jewel and after 500hrs~ of all sorts of power build variations I have found this particular build (using II in Soul Reaping) to be the strongest in terms of damage output and survivability

’murica be a man play a warrior

mini.6018:

Actually guardian has 2 teleports 1 leap 1 pull and even a lot of immobilizes.The only thing is that you have to use your brain while playing a guard and use the skills when needed .If you are a spammer dps guard is not the best choice.

wat

Generally speaking the effectiveness of damage, I feel, is reduced when switching to sword (as opposed to scepter) and dropping Flame/Lighting sigils to use Hydromancy. Also noticeably hurting from dropping power runes and switching to speed, which I use mostly in tournaments. It feels like DPS Guard is incomplete.

Smirgel.9460:

Use hammer instead of gs (or hammer and gs…) Judge’s -> ward them. You get better heals out of litany anyways with hammer mighty blow…

I don’t have Littany because of the SP requirement And as much fun as Hammer is I don’t think it’s the best weapon for DPS although I should test it out with Judge’s Intervention

mrook.4163:

Sticking to your target is definitely one of the toughest things to overcome as a dps guardian. Personally, I find hydromancy sigils and speed runes indispensable in this. While I would love for Anet to give use some soft cc, these are the best tools we currently have. When working on sticking to a target with my build I tried a number of things but none were as effective.
Here is the build I run, with a little explanation on each part: http://intothemists.com/guides/2294-ittys_meditation_dps
Good luck, and message me in game if you have any other questions about dps guardian!

I thought about using Hydromancy, and I guess I should give it a try at this point. I’ll check out your build – thanks!

Hello all,

Lately I’ve been playing on my Meditation DPS Guard and there is one thing that is crippling my damage output: I can’t hit people! Aside from the occasional #5 pull and Judge’s Intervention we have no other way of getting players in hitting range which is really annoying.

So I came up with an easy fix that would allow Guardians to sit in range more often, at least while using GS: add a cripple effect to leash as it is on the person, and make it tick every 2-3 seconds for its 10 seconds of duration. IMHO It’ll bring out much more effectiveness out of close range builds.

Thoughts? Any other possibly more effective solutions?

Ugh I guess I really should churn out 25 SPs.. I really wanted to try Littany of Wrath since I’m traited the same way as you for Meditations (Fury+heal and -20% recharge).

By the way, don’t you feel sword #3 is absolute crap? It feels similar to GS #2 with the silly magical projectiles. I will definitely pick up staff and try to replace it

Nice video and pretty good gameplay! What’s your build, if I may ask? And amulet?

R44 Necro here! Have lots of hours into the build I’m currently running and all I do is sPvP

An OP spec I’ve been using is a combination of spectral spells (Wall, Armor and Pull) along with X in Curses. Build is 20/20/0/0/30 and it can survive forever as well dishing out enormous amounts of damage.

I think this build is as good as a power build can get by combining the survivability of DS (use II in Soul Reaping – 50% reduced degen) as well as its damage by having lots of critical chance and damage (72% in DS and 38% crit damage). Honestly with the X buff in the first trait line the burst output has increased dramatically.

Try maybe power necro? If you’re careful and don’t take craptons of damage you could survive a decent amount with a deathshroud power build and absolutely kitten on people if done right. I’ve run about 2k games with this setup

http://tinypic.com/r/i5nkb7/5

Right after I destroyed 2 players underwater within 5 seconds Powershroud build with zerker amulet

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

TeamQ [DIS]advantage:

• SLOWER Queue time

Corrected it for you. SoloQ for me is around 1-5 minutes at the very max, while teamQ easily exceeds the 15 minute mark

Josh Davis.6015:

Elementalist: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Glyph_of_Renewal
Ranger: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Nature%27s_Renewal
Engineer: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Toss_Elixir_R

Can’t think of any others off the top of my head.

I have fought players who revived themselves from scratch while they were downed and, yes, it’s happened when others weren’t even around. It’s happened with freshly spawned players (which means they didn’t tag any enemy), just like everybody is saying around here. There might actually be a bug/glitch that some people have been able to exploit.

John Corpening.9847:

Yep, sorry for the confusion. It’s when you accept the chest. That’s the time you get the bonus rank points and rewards.

You should now get 450 bonus points for a Solo Arena Win and 1000 bonus points for a Team Arena win. This is in addition to the the regular match rewards.

Woah, might I be able to hit 50 from 43 before the big change?

I was just wondering because I pack a whole lot more critical chance in DS than in normal form. Reaper’s Precision is Curses V.

This happens a lot on my mesmer, necro and a bit less on my guard. It’s frustrating and I can see the skill being toggled on the bar, it just doesnt go through sometimes.

Hello all,

I’ve been stuck at 93/100 (3/5) on the Combat Healer achievement. It’s been at this for as long as I can remember, but just the other day during a game it popped up “Tontonino Combat Healer” or whatever. Thing is, I’m still stuck at 93/100 and I’m sure I’ve revived FAR more than that by now. Anybody else running into this issue?

I use horn because of my DS build. #5 on horn as well as #2 on axe provide a lot of life force.

Cynz.9437:

Krayiss.4926:

So we have 4 more classes (now 5 with the warrior) getting another passive skill.

Ghostcrawler is available for hire I believe. He would be a great asset for this game…

GC killed wow pvp… hell no, ty

despite all crap going on in gw2, pvp here is still miles better than in wow

If sets foot in this game I am not kidding I will drop GW2instantly. PvP balancing has been a nightmare under him and it turned out into a really chaotic kittenfest of OPness. NO ty.

I have 0 SP across characters and I assume it’ll take me a while to get the required points to unlock it across all of them. I liked the fact that GW2 presented sPvP in such a way that all players are on the same playing field. I liked the idea that it was detached from PvE/WvW given the fact that it was its own structured system, this interweaving between PvE and sPvP is no bueno if done this way.

The problem is that it gimps PvP players. Simple. I don’t understand all this kittening drama to be honest!

Chaith.8256:

Hawk.7628:

I don’t enjoy PvE, I shouldn’t have to play it to have an advantage in PvP. By allowing some to have the heals unlocked, while others do not, it puts these players on unequal grounds, as one has access to a skill that the other does not.

Can we just add PvE stats to PvP gear and call it WvW Arenas at this point?

Don’t overreact, the difference in ‘equal footing’ by those who have the new heals and who don’t is pretty abysmal. I think only a couple of them are even conceivably better in some situations. A majority of PvE Group Support heals, far and wide.

I question the decision too.. seeing as PvP is first and foremost where you go to unlock all the skills and gear. But nobody’s really suffering, is my point.

I definitely do not expect myself to do better with these new spells, I just wish to have them in PvP is all! To spend 37,500 Glory + 5G per character is just insane. I thought the idea was to bring in more PvP players, so why do PvP players have to go through such a big hoop for a new skill? It’s backwards

I didn’t even unlock it but by judging by the stream they held a few days ago it won’t really hold a candle vs shelter, which can be especially good for DPS guards given #25 in Valor (1 might per block). If the cast time was reduced it’d go great with meditation builds – ARGH!

3/4 of a second would be okay for a Meditation but the full second is just awful. Not sure why it makes sense to have to prep a full second cast before bursting.

Hello all,

Today I was very excited to log-in and try out the new heals, especially the Guardian one because it fits so well with my meditation build BUT but but but…

I need to go PvE to get 25 points needed. I don’t really play PvE, nor is it my intention to go out of my way to get all those points for a heal I won’t even use in PvE.

How long does it take to get 25 points? Why can’t I simply unlock these for PvP ONLY?

Harbinger.8637:

If you’re traited that deep into Vitures, you’re better off going shouts then meds. Also Sigil of Purity is terrible because it can proc even when you don’t have a condition on you.

I’d say try something like this:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyvDf4ESOjVCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

or this one

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8elUgyCXFyMEf4ESODRCBxPgRXPcoEihA-TsAg0CnIySllLLTWyssZNyYJyGCA

I did try shouts but I feel like having three meditations on a 20% shorter cooldown gives me more survivability. I understand that having +30% boon duration makes shouts much more worthwhile, but I’d rather be able to have a couple condi cleansers + heal. Plus, I get 5 1/2 seconds fury per meditation which is pretty good for damage.

I got rid of Sigil of Purity and went with Superior Battle (3 stacks of might on swap) on GS, Sigil of Superior Accuracy on shield and Sigil of Superior Bloodlust on sword.

Well, I am well aware of the fact that Barbarian’s doesn’t provide nearly as much effective defense (and perhaps damage?) as Soldiers, but sitting at 35-40% crit chance instead of 4% seems like a great tradeoff to me since I am sitting at 30% crit damage. I’ve only played this build for a couple hours so I’ll try different setups and I will definitely look into Lyssa, especially with the +30% boon duration this build benefits from. Thanks!

Hello, all

I recently built a 0/0/30(I,X,XII)/10(V)/30(II,IX,XII) Guardian with Sword/Shield+Greatsword, Barbarian Amulet. Using Shelter as a heal and Smite Condition, Contemplation of Purity and Merciful Intervention. Using Hoelbrak as my armor set and Superior Sigil of Purity on both weapon sets.

My aim with this build was to dish out a decent amount of damage, be able to sit in retaliation while giving some support to teammates. How does this fare against other Guardian builds? How could I tweak the build to make it better?

P.S.
I only play sPvP

I have only ever played power on Necro, both Powershroud (zerker 30/10/0/0/30 dd/axe+horn) and I have never had issues taking down people 1v1, or even 1v2 for that matter.

If you don’t want to go zerker but retain most of the damage, try out 20/20/0/0/30 with soldier’s amulet, dd/axe+horn with Spectral Armor, Spectral Pull and Spectral wall – get the 20% reduced duration for spectral skills in soul reaping and the other thing in curses that enhances their duration. I can last a long time with this build while still dishing out a good amount of damage – not to mention the 3-4 fears you can squeeze out of a wall + pull (pull them into it!).

I have played approximately 2,000 games as Power Necro so I could help out a bit!

Forgot to mention, I use either Rock Dog or Lyssa (+10% condi duration means a total of +60% fear with the extension).

sPvP has its flaws and they can definitely be game-breaking but overall it’s still a lot of fun

savov.3712:

“Hey, thank you for your feedback.
Templates are definitely on our list do be implemented and we really want to do them. Unfortunately, can’t talk about this just yet. Will come back soon when have more details.”

Pretty much this is the best answer you will get.

That’s why I am asking again. I have seen people get responses but they were all along the lines of what you just quoted. It’s not like we’re asking for some absurd change…