Guild Wars 2

Not sure if serious.

Defektive.7283:

Puandro.3245:

Defektive.7283:

I like the concept, wish we had the gear in sPvP to hit those levels of regen.

He only has 950 HP, which is less than what you can get in spvp with the Shaman amulet.

HP or Regen? 950 healing per sec is quite a big difference. I said i wish we could get that level of Regen.

950 Healing power, as in the stat. I have a build similar to the OP in spvp but havent had the time to build it for WvW yet. Basically you need a way to provide perma regen and nothing beats 30 points in Tactics for banners. Send me a PM if you want it for message me in-game. Spirits can vouch for me if you don’t know me :P.

emanueldst.8049:

would this work for running dungeons? im still lvling my warr and this one build caught my eye.. was runnin something like this without the regen from banners and was doing allright but that regen is insane xD

Call me an elitist if you want but avoid condition builds entirely if you wish to do Dungeons due to them scaling worse than power builds and condition caps.

Go for a power build with a full berserker mix but if you feel you can’t handle being full zerk add some knight armor.

Defektive.7283:

I like the concept, wish we had the gear in sPvP to hit those levels of regen.

He only has 950 HP, which is less than what you can get in spvp with the Shaman amulet.

Ill add my 2 cents since ive played a ranger and a skull crack warrior too, videos in my signature if you care to see.

A properly build warrior for solo will be using enough zerk items for 50% crit chance (which is full armor and weapons) and cavalier trinkets. With dolyak signet i have 3,200 armor and 19K health + wvw bonuses. Also ~98% crit damage and 100% crit chance in stuns. Almost as much power as a full zerk suit. Also with the new healing signet (i think its OP) gl killing one with sustained damage as a power build. As a condi build your cripple/imob/chill will instantly dissapear and when they use their burst they will remove 2 condis and they have shake it off on a 25 sec CD. If yiu dodge their mace burst skill they will prob hit your stupid pet and still remove 2 condis anyways.

You need to play offensively. Only stun break their actual mace burst stun. Use rampage as one when all of your stun breakers are down. People say here to burn through the warriors stun breakers and stability but good luck with that because i still havent managed to use all 3 off my stun breakers vs good skull crack warriors so a ranger wont have any better luck. Best case scenario is a stalemate. If the warrior decides to run you wont catch unless you run sword and gs with cooldown reduction. No matter how tanky you are if a warrior stuns you, you will lose ~80%-90% of your HP off a full HB.

As for warriors not using heal powet, its because you need to run at least 3 things that use heal power to make it worth it. #6 is 1. Adrenal health is 2. They need some form of high up time regen or healing shouts to make heal power worth it. Atm i dont forsee myself running shouts in a power build so 30 tactics are out of reach. Also melandru runes are a must have for melee warriors so dwayna is out of the question.

Will probably kill just to test the drop rate…. Anet the ball is in your court.

Apollo.7583:

Chopps.5047:

Not even stopping there, think about apothecary builds with torch and warhorn on swap. Hey! How about some AoE frost armor after my frost trap pops? >:)

Powerbuilds can utilize this better with 2 leaps and blast to get 11 seconds of frost armor. Nearly 50% uptime by yourself. Though timing will be tough.

Frost armor doesn’t stack in duration.

Should it be base? maybe. I feel Elemental Attunement for elementalist should be base, hell so many people who don’t play eles THINK that it is base and that you get boons for swapping attunements.

TBH if you make it base you are down a slipper slope with other classes who have must have traits and that they want it to become base.

I personally can’t make pvp builds without fast hands.

JonPeters.5630:

Daecollo.9578:

JonPeters.5630:

We believe the majority of the issue is the effects spam. News on that front coming VERY soon. Once that is out of the way we can start to address other concerns.

Jon

Jon, I would love it if instead of using so many particle effects we instead used more weapon trails and .swh effects.

They are just as pretty (A lot of them in the game seem /hand painted/) and don’t clog up the entire screen with explosions.

As I mentioned at some point earlier, we are working on a system that basically weights these effects and tries to make the noisier ones less noisy. This system is in a good place right now on our development servers so expect to hear about it fairly soon.

It will definitely try and bring out the streaks and such a bit compared to the chaos storms, for example.

Jon

This is great to hear and i imagine it would be applied game wide for WvW and PvE also?

Still as a tPvP player i wouldnt mind making everyone appear on your screen as humans. Animations from bigger models are easier to recignize quickly and then you have extra time to dodge, im not talking about 1v1 melee range fighting but trying to read asura animations from range is a PITA.

Lol

10 chars

MI is good as it is, you guys are crazy.

I would welcome a buff to Maul or AA and add weakness to Maul.

Ranger’s weren’t worth the slot pre-patch. It wasn’t until warrior got a small damage nerf and ranger got their spotters boosted and spirit pet traits lowered and merged. Even then a Ranger is doing what a mesmer has been doing since launch. Doing less damage than everyone else in the group but boosting everyone else damage enough that they are worth a slot but without the utility.

Been that way for a long time, maybe since beta but im unsure.

Seriously, not even in a group is this good. You have to do 20K damage to make up the damage loss with 0 condition stat.

galandor.1059:

You know what this means,

get ready for an inflow of would be Warriors,

can’t wait to watch them flop.

Cant be worse then you.

BURN!!!!! – Kelso

Aether McLoud.1975:

RyuDragnier.9476:

Aether McLoud.1975:

JonPeters.5630:

Among other benefits the stealth on hunters also let’s you cast the beginning of barrage without detection.

So it’s ok for rangers to have stealth now, but eles cannot have mobility? My double standard sense is tingeling.

Most elementalists run D/D, which is already mobile and tanky enough. I don’t think they need a buff to mobility, tyvm.

1 skill on a 40 seconds cooldown does not equal mobility when everyone else has the same skill on 12 seconds cooldowns.

Pretty much this.

LB #1 still puts me off.

I know ill be using Healing Signet on almost all of my PvE encounters from now on!

awge.3852:

@Puandro: In your video around 2:25, there is a neat trick that you did with sword 2 while trying to catch a running ranger. Here you used hornet sting in the air but you didn’t get that roll back, you stayed in place instead and then used monarch’s leap to reach him. Can you elaborate on this?

I cleared my target then turned my character around and used #2 to leap towards him, then targeted him for the 2nd part of the #2 but my pet got the final hit in so that wasn’t really necessary.

Spirits with his play by play when he is fearing ppl never gets old lol.

Miyu.8137:

Bunker/regen ranger build is one of the best or even the best which ranger has. While being able to outheal lot of incoming dmg, you still keep the power thanks to your pet and 30BM. I don’t want to decrease the level of your skill, the vid is truly great and you showing the knowledge of the class and its skills, you mastered this build no doubts about that. However it’s one of the easiest ranger builds to play, would you agree with me?

I generaly don’t like bunker builds, I think they are kind of out of hands, on all classes. On the other side power builds are in the backgrounds of bunker/condition builds (unless you have unlimited posibilities to hide and vanish from fight anytime you want when your hp is dangerously down, then here it’s working), specially by rangers.

Full power (berserker) build requires much better timing and precize skill usage. One mistake and you can be down in a sec. Would love to see a vid of someone who mastered such build.

I find my build is a bit harder to play than the typical s/d gs full bunker or the s/t a/d condi bunker build. I think you over estimate how easy it is for me to go splat if i don’t dodge the proper things. I lack Empathic Bond or Bark Skin to last longer when kitten hits the fan. I also give up the 6th bonus on Dwanya for more uptime on pet buffs for its dps.

As for Zerk being harder to use? Depends on the scenario. 1vX sure its harder but not because of being easy to be killed due to being squishy but because you are forced to eat damage trying to stomp, that is the only reason zerk builds are harder to play. The enemy should die quicker too due to your damage sometimes ending it in 5 seconds if they mess up at the start so there is less room for enemies to come in and help each other. I have a Zerk mesmer/thief and somewhat balanced build warrior/ele and my bunker ranger.

Zerk rangers are just….meh. Sorry but pets don’t scale off stats and im not going to add more dps gear to my character and get 50% of the return other players do instead of staying hard to kill which rangers benefit from 100% like other classes.

Finally i would like to add that there are really no hard builds in this game. You have 10 buttons, some F1 skills and movement keys, thats it. A lot of those are actually passive or on big cooldowns. I mean what build is actually hard to play in this game for you? The only challenging part of this game is dodging properly and not wasting your dodges on useless attacks (or no attacks) and countering their CD’s with yours. Warrior dropped stability? don’t use hard CC. Necro dropped fear wall? drop stability or go around it. Thief hit you with basilik out of nowhere? Stun break and dodge within 1 second to avoid the BS.

Ive been playing D/D ele since Beta and people used to think Eles required piano keyboard strokes to execute stuff perfectly which isn’t really true, eles are easy to play just like every other class.

ChaosDoom.8459:

Forzani.2584:

Seriously, you should try it for yourself. I think you would be disappointed in your results.

I tried it and the results is as you mentioned. Puandro’s skills is up there for his ele and ranger.

Haha thanks, sorry its not an easy build, fun though.

You already have perma fury.

Durzlla.6295:

Every warrior i have ever talked to has said that the blind ruins it, and seeing as how i have ruined their combo several times with it speaks wonders, and they’re hardly going to get that 1HB off with the 3 KDs i have KB, Fear, immob, cripple, blinds, perma swiftness etc.

I have 16 seconds of stability and you have no boon removal, also a stun breaker/condi clear on a 25 sec CD. Also near perma swiftness. Lets not pretend that you can’t clearly see when the spirits raise their arms to actually do a spell either, although the sun blind is a bit faster than the others.

Targuil.3741:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXdGjHVR8mw

~19-20 seconds judging by the cooldown of BiP.

Full berserker with ruby orbs
Sigil of force+bloodlust
VI/VIII/XII
IV
-
-
VI/II/XII

Full bloodlust stack, butternut squash/superior sharpening stone as foods.

Could use scholars+sigils of night/undead slaying and potion of undead slaying for even bigger boost but I kept it as general dps. Also speed to rotation could be faster (used 1 unnecessary axe auto, could maybe use DS5)

Dagger Auto does more damage than the new Lifeblast BTW…. even with the trait.

Lets not ignore the fact that a GS Mace/Shield warrior will kill your spirits in 1 HB anyways.

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Durzlla.6295:

swiftpaw.6397:

Biggest counter atm is the stun lock/KD warrior with longbow/hammer or 1h sword. Just wrecks kitten. LB aoe kittens up spirits, pindown, hammer KD’s, ground slam etc etc you’re kittened up.

this guy is on a thief, he’s been fotm for a long time and hes mad that all of a sudden the rug’s pulled out from under him and he has to think about how to kill someone.

How do you get countered by a stun lock warrior when you can blind them for 2 attacks O.o?

Only 2 attacks.

Which kittens all over their stunlocking combo…

They have more than just 2 stun locks for cc.

Yes… i know this… but if they miss 2 of them their stun lock combo is ruined, how are you not getting this?

Stun CD is so short that it doesn’t really matter if you miss it TBH.

I main ele and if you think spirit ranger is OP then you need your head checked.

Kasama.8941:

Eurantien.4632:

It is more rewarding to win a 1 v 2 or a 1 v 3 as a solo roamer than it is to take a camp or a tower as a zerg.

That depends on what you had to do, to take that tower. If you just run strait in, then it’s not as fun, but if you’ve spend the last 30 min trying to get into a strong defended tower, and finally manage to get in through coordination and teamwork, then I think it’s a lot more rewarding then solo roaming.

Both are opinions and there is no right or wrong.

Warrior is the weakest pvp class but ill quit the game if i would lose to a ranger running 4 spirits on my warrior.

hyjaxxx.1584:

Puandro.3245:

raoul.4218:

I think I’ve raised enough hackles…….my job is done. LOL.

Im glad we could help you. Now go stack with the zerg to make sure you avoid damage while spamming 1. Also hope that Anet doesnt remove the silly 5 target aoe cap because if that happens you will have 5 man grps kittenting all over the zerg in like in DAoC and maybe the zerg might actually think for itself for once.

Puandro, I never figured you for one of the " its my money so ill play how i want kinda guys" I totally get where youre coming from , but its kinda like Setting up for a nice game of checkers…then stuffing the pieces up your butt, because its your checker board, and youll do as you please.

I think the OP asked a realistic question. and up until i found that killing yaks and sentries gave immediate points. i was in the same boat. I thought running by yourself as opposed to a 5 man skirmish team was silly. But now its a completely viable choice.

Your checkboard argument doesnt really apply, it makes more sense if i was doing tPvP and just decided to kill people and ignore the cap points. tPvP is a 5v5 like checkers is a 1v1 and you have agreed to the rules of the game upon joining to the match, also tPvP your team mates assume you will participate with them. WvW is different, while its not truly an open sandbox pvp zone its really close, you also dont join a “team” upon joining a borderland. Sandbox = make your own game and have fun, i have no problem with people zerging or people using transform tonics and running around in groups with kites and not killing anything, its their choice and they can do what they want with their game time.

raoul.4218:

I think I’ve raised enough hackles…….my job is done. LOL.

Im glad we could help you. Now go stack with the zerg to make sure you avoid damage while spamming 1. Also hope that Anet doesnt remove the silly 5 target aoe cap because if that happens you will have 5 man grps kittenting all over the zerg in like in DAoC and maybe the zerg might actually think for itself for once.

Pretty much anyone with a sense of balance agrees pets should scale off stats but Anet doesnt think so. Considering stats will stay the same in spvp i doubt its a priority for Anet.

I solo because i find it more fun than running with the mindless zerg. When i go out my goal is to kill people, helping my server just happens to be something that happens as a side effect not as a main goal. I kill jaks to create “action” for myself not to help my server. I take camps to create action for myself not to help my server. I kill straglers from the zerg for fun not to make sure they dont reach their destination to help their zerg. I taunt the zerg to make them chase me for fun not to waste their time so my server has an advantage on what they are doing.

Thats how i choose to play. As the saying in DAoC goes, its my $15 a month and i choose how i spend my time online not you.

Rampagers in melee or range does not do more dps than zerk in melee or range even if you keep perma burn/poison and some bleed stacks on the target.

This was changed a while ago by Anet, before CC even with condition duration didnt phase you if you had 98% reduction.

Laiboch.4380:

Wiseman.4870:

Laiboch.4380:

This build isn’t new.

Yea It is, As i said it was isired on other Builds but there are some diferences.

No it really is not. I use to run almost this exact build with 1 trait difference. I didn’t use spotter.

I know everyone wants to think they came up with something new and exciting, but This build is neither new or exciting. I have actually seen this build posted several times since I have been playing.

20/30/20… Is not new. The traits you took in this build are not new. The weapon set you use is not new. Neither is using Rampage crit/condi gear.

The name is new though…

I am all for coming up with idea’s but please don’t take a Big Mac put it in a new box, and call it a Big Bob expecting that people will think you really came up with something new.

I (and many many others on these forums) have run about every combo you can think of just to see what happens. I have run spirit, crit/condi, power/crit, power/tough, tough/condi, bunker, and even rolled BM for about 5 min before I had to run to the bathroom and vomit… I just felt ill and dirty for rolling that build for even those 5 min. Mostly because it requires next to 0 skill to play.

Again Its really good to see people posting builds, but there is nothing, and I mean nothing original about this build.

We got a kitten over here guys.

http://www.twitch.tv/puandro

Usually solo/duo, solo atm.

Wiseman.4870:

Puandro.3245:

If you want to run a condi build thats fine but i see no reason to run Rampager when you could run zerk and do more damage while still being as glassy, now if you said Rampagers or carrion vs Zerk because you don’t want glass thats different.

Berserker as you said is more suitable for melee or Short Bow. Im not looking for Dph im looking for Dps. This Build is based on “Dont get to close to kill fast”. The Condition on Ramager Boost The Damage ull Deal over Time and that will Ensure the Fact that you dont have to melee and risk to get hitted. You can Call it Glassy but i say “its not that much” cos you can still take some hits with this and escape. I’ve soloed Champs, and Vets on World and been doin great on Fracts. With this build u can Run around while ur enemies lose their Hp Over Time (rlly fast). basically u avoid risks.

You could just run SB and do more damage still than conditions.

If you want to run a condi build thats fine but i see no reason to run Rampager when you could run zerk and do more damage while still being as glassy, now if you said Rampagers or carrion vs Zerk because you don’t want glass thats different.

Velron.3729:

I shudder to think how easily I could 1shot people in WvW on my Engineer with 134% crit damage. lol

People are also tankier.

Replace gear with berserker.
Use melee weapon.

Profit.

Luske.3297:

You asked for proof of 16k+ evis and i gave it to you…

and 3k power with 134% crit dmg does alot of dmg.

Anyways this wasnt about builds or skill level but OP asked if 16k evis was to much

Pretty much this.

Yamsandjams.3267:

Grok Krog.9581:

Tested earlier and 2 sigils of paralyzation do stack making Shield Bash and Skull Crack last a whole extra second

I’d have to double check, but I think 1 sigil of paralyzation will do the same thing. That is, if you have 1 sigil equipped, your skull crack will be 4s, same as if you had 2 sigils.

The way those sigils work, they often round up to the next second even if they’re partial seconds. So if you have 1 sigil, you get 3.45 seconds on skull crack, which rounds to 4 seconds. A second sigil would give 3.9 seconds on skull crack, which rounds to 4 seconds.

The behaviour is perhaps not consistent among abilities, but 1 sigil of parylzation is sufficient to land the full hundred blades without quickness when following up from skull crack, with enough to to perform the weapon swap and hit them with whirlwind afterwards.

There’s no easy way to check it in game other than direct observation, but I believe just one sigil will allow you the 4 seconds on skull crack, without the need for a second one.

Correct.

Phantams mesmer is still the top 1v1 build, condis are its counter but its not like mesmers dont have any.

Forzani.2584:

Great display of skills as usual. I switched to a power/regen build last week and included Warhorn. Maybe I did something right ! No range damage would be a tough gig. Same weapon setup as you but I have axe instead of sword.

The build ? I need to take a 3rd look at it because I wasn’t feeling it after looking the first couple of times.

To whoever mentioned a future nerf after watching this video. Understand the success you see is 90% player skill. The average player can’t pull this off. Seriously, you should try it for yourself. I think you would be disappointed in your results.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.

Manekk.6981:

Puandro.3245:

Manekk.6981:

Puandro.3245:

Was playing a warrior after the patch so thats why i didn’t make a ranger video sooner, shameless plug to my Warrior WvW vid if you missed it :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Video-Skulls-N-Bones-WvW-Solo-Warrior/first#post

Question on this warriorbuild, is it really neccessary to have all the condition removal you have if you have -98% condi duration? (I think that’s what is was with food) seems kinda pointless to me then atleast using several ones.

Edit: Strike that I just saw it was just the “cc condis” in the trait

Being immune to CC condis is pretty much win for a pure melee build.

Oh I have no doubt, I think you misunderstand what I first thought, I meant having condition removal at all would be more or less pointless if you already had -98% condi duration I misread the trait tooltip cause it’s bloody late and nothing surprises me anymore in this game so I wouldn’t be shocked if it had included all conditions across the board but I then noticed it was just the cripples etc.

Ah yah.

Manekk.6981:

Puandro.3245:

Was playing a warrior after the patch so thats why i didn’t make a ranger video sooner, shameless plug to my Warrior WvW vid if you missed it :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Video-Skulls-N-Bones-WvW-Solo-Warrior/first#post

Question on this warriorbuild, is it really neccessary to have all the condition removal you have if you have -98% condi duration? (I think that’s what is was with food) seems kinda pointless to me then atleast using several ones.

Edit: Strike that I just saw it was just the “cc condis” in the trait

Being immune to CC condis is pretty much win for a pure melee build.

Was playing a warrior after the patch so thats why i didn’t make a ranger video sooner, shameless plug to my Warrior WvW vid if you missed it :P

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Video-Skulls-N-Bones-WvW-Solo-Warrior/first#post