Guild Wars 2

if you nerf my scholar runes anet you will never hear the end of it, and what about classes with critical damage trait lines? e.g mesmer with 108 crit, what are they supposed to use? Knights armor designed for children who can’t dodgeroll?
Why should good players be forced into using defensive stats they don’t need?

oh my god this guy hahaha

Yes I mean team condition removal, one of the things a guardian is liable for, but if you enjoy meditations go for it, personally though I feel the valor trait line is rather selfish

no blind spamming or master of consecrations or condition removal?

excuses for not being able to stay alive in a dps build me thinks

Generally in pve you just want to run full berserker with a dps build (15,15,0,20,20) for hammer. I don’t see why players struggle using full dps builds?

Charak.9761:

Shizlam.4310:

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

Grok Krog.9581:

I only like Ranger’s when they’re using the proper things.

Spotter (gets me up to the 99% crit chance cap)

Frost Spirit. 7% extra damage is nice on top of all other damage boosts

Extra Fury/Blast Finisher Might from Warhorn.

Decent Vulnerability

and a Jungle Stalker for 5 stacks of party wide Might

This… And if a ranger joins my group with a bow equipped. They are insta booted.

Really? You kick a RANGER because he uses ranged weapons? It’s like saying i’ll kick a thief if he uses daggers.

Rangers aren’t people who use range weapons, they are watchers of the wild in the open range. Like this guy

I always use him to reference what a ranger should be like

cuz there is not enough bear bows and everyone wants bear bows

Probably just make toughness/vitality scale better and condition damage/healing power better

The build is bad but the gear is good

Just to point out on guard as opposed to war you aren’t meant to spec MAX dps, you wan’t to go as higher damage possible while making minimal number of trade off’s for support, e.g guard is liable for master of consecrations and condition removal (absolute resolution is probably your best bet).

it’s better than AH but still bad, damage is lower than a 10,30,0,5,25 build and support is lower (blind spamming on trash). Basically it’s just bad and so is celestial gear

I still don’t see a problem with zerker in pve? are people just kitten because they can’t be healers and need an excuse to stop dying?

I don’t use zerker for more damage mainly, I use it because other stats don’t affect me, don’t need toughness don’t need vital don’t need cond damage/healing, the only stats I need are power/prec/crit damage, I really hope they make PvE harder thus more appealing to use harder sets, because at the moment good players don’t need any defensive stats for pve

i do level 49 fractals and healing won’t make a difference there, you can give your team tons of support if not more in a dps build as dead enemies do no damage and blind spamming

i want healing to remain useless because everything is currently easy and healing just makes things harder and longer, healing isn’t needed so why make encounters longer?

but there isn’t one

4. don’t use full healing power if it all

Ahlen.7591:

Belenwyn.8674:

Painbow.6059:

even if you made toughness or vitality stats 2x as good or healing power 10x as good zerk will always rule

No, you can design encounters where your defense is much more important than your offense.

Not really, because the best defense isn’t based on stats. The best defense is skills and evades.

Evade, Blind(sometimes), reflect, block, etc are far more important the harder the content gets. Not toughess/vit/healing pow.

Exactly, in 49 fractals you would actually survive less with defensive gear

fully agree, not gonna complain as guard has great damage and great traits at the same time but lots of trash

Belenwyn.8674:

Painbow.6059:

even if you made toughness or vitality stats 2x as good or healing power 10x as good zerk will always rule

No, you can design encounters where your defense is much more important than your offense.

i look forward to this, generally everything in pve is easy anyways so making stuff more difficult will make more of a challenge for zerker players thus making zerker still better

i’m opposed to healing power but use it in moderation if at all, going full healing power deserves a kick

even if you made toughness or vitality stats 2x as good or healing power 10x as good zerk will always rule

‘tanking’ in gw2 is just an excuse for not dodge rolling

Yeah guan is right but you can dodge the attacks from that boss sometimes (not all of them are easy to see) and full zerk guard is still perfectly viable in high level fractals with pugs (49), but you should be using hammer in fractals anyway

full zerker guard is still a face roll in pugs, if you are having issues then it is probably your ineptitude of mechanical understanding not the pugs

oh god no, staff is used for LoS might stacking swiftness and general dungeon running, it’s a utility weapon definitely not a main hand weapon

I don’t really see the point in a discussion where this build is so obviously bad. If you can’t see it please refrain from playing guard

Arnath.2319:

Thankyou for the advice everyone!

I’m going to keep practising and see if i improve, i have three questions however…

1. I have never heard of “Whirl finisher in Light Field” to cure a condition before can someone please explain how this works?

2. It is suggested that i use Knights gear to help until i get better, what about Soldier or Sentinel? Since we get so much precision and ‘Right Hand Strength’ in 30 Radiance, can you ever have two much crit chance?

3. I have always been hesitant to go deep into Virtues trait line because i thought pure stat increase is better than boon duration? Is a few seconds shaved off our Virtue recharge and a slight increase in boon duration worth the 300-600 stat loss?

1. It’s a combo field, if you do certain things in combo fields you get a different bonus
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

2. Just go zerk and learn the mechanics better as you improve (dodge to win/aegis/reflect/invuln/blind)

3. When doing traits stats are not as significant as the traits themselves. Traits are where you pick up utility and damage multipliers. 10,30,0,5,25 is a perfect guardian trait line

You wan’t to be aware of how efficient certain stats are. Before I say anything full zerker is the most efficient way for guardian but if you wan’t to mix sets go with the armor on something else (it gives like 1 crit dmg to 12 stats up to 1 crit damage to 16 stats) the trinkets give like 1 crit dmg to 9ish stats which is better

maybe not dodge but gain like blurred frenzy while you are dodging or something

Why can’t people just use Obal’s build and be useful at the game? It’s a selfish build without wall, yes the damage is high but at the cost of loads of utility, very bad build

I use focus but to be honest there is nothing spectacular

I would honestly use a 10,30,0,5,25 build with full zerker and just learn how to play better instead of admitting you can’t play that way now. Some people can’t play full zerker and thats ok but practise on veteran giants queensdae champs ect to improve your dodging. Also try out dungeons and fractals to become a better player

Well what defines someone as good is how good they play, not the class. That being said for pve they are bad. Damage low support low no reflections no vigor, why take one? that is the question. For dungeons I wouldn’t kick one or anything, but in fractals 49 I definitely wouldn’t run with a necro

foofad.5162:

Well, the idea is that you bring spare weapons with Night. It’s not too terribly costly.

I would except I have ascended weapons and not getting two ascended swords

I use force because if i’m somewhere which isn’t classes as night the -5% damage would bug my conscience

I don’t like like the idea of two swords for guardian. Would much rather a shield rework

you can’t tank in gw2 but you can get carried by your team

Oh i’m sorry then ignore me

If i’m being completely honest those builds are way too over kill on defense, maybe slot in a few knight pieces with a standard zerker build, but that is way too overkill. Condition damage is a no go on elementalist for pve, healing power is also a no go, basically focus on damage stats and add in a bit more toughness or vitality. You keep mentioning you are a casual player, while I would consider myself better than an average player 2.6k armor and 17k health really necessary? I run with 2.1k armor and 11k health on my guardian and do all dungeons and 49 fractals no problem, I suggest you buy yourself a full set of zerker armor, go d/f with 30,30,0,0,10 and die a lot at first. After a while you will get better and dodge stuff. I think the saying is baptism by fire.

For pve you could achieve builds with like twice the damage of those so I recommend you try 10,30,0,5,25 for zerker gear for pve if you want to be useful

I’d say an elementalist is good in just about any scenario

There is some viable healing power builds for pve out there, I mean for dungeons you could make something with moderate damage and good healing support, or just go full healing support, but for fractals, you NEED to go full out on the dps

Ghotistyx.6942:

Not to hijack your pleas for help, but I’m in a similar boat. I’ve got some ascended I’ll be working towards, or otherwise own, but I’d like to know if I could merely retrait for whenever I happen to go into WvW, rather than regear. This is what I hope to end up with. I usually ride the train, and I’ve usually found that either the zerg wipes and there’s nothing you can do, or I can get away. Is there a way to retrait that is “community approved” with this gear?

Your traits are absolutely fine, but you are lacking way too much critical chance for pve

well for fractals and dungeons you want to go 10,30,0,5,25 with sf/gs using full zerker gear,

if you want to be more supporty in dungeons/fractals you go 15,15,0,20,20 with a hammer full zerker gear (best for fractals),

If you want to do solo pve anything goes doesn’t matter,

I don’t play enough wvw to be able to give you advise there sorry, you probably couldn’t find gear optimised for both dungeons and wvw though

no ofc it doesn’t need an improvement, a useless passive which eats up a place on your utility bar, totally worth it!

go full shamans gear with a mace and torch, with 30,0,30,10,0 best set up for pve by far

Well you would’ve thought anet would’ve got the message by now

I’m sorry anet but this really needs re-working. I am all for hard pve content and do fractals 49 on a daily basis, but nearly every single group feels compelled to use exploits to do the fractal. Even when using exploits and stealth it can be a pain in the kitten . The first bit should be removed. Like replace it with something less annoying such as a boss battle. I often waste a good 40 minutes-1hr just getting past the first past. The mobs after that you have to fight your way into also hit very hard, if your group doesn’t stack up and use reflects then you are all screwed. The boss is a 1 hit attack which you can’t see always as you are being attacked by multiple foes at the same time. Basically what i’m saying is completely rework the first bit and maybe lower some of the damage. You don’t turn up to dredge fractal thinking ‘oh boy lets have some fun’. You turn up thinking ‘y u do dis anet’ It’s not so much challenging as completely stupid, compared to all other fractals it’s much longer too e.g swamp.