Guild Wars 2

Oxidia.8103:

They should fix him and other fractal glitches when they fix the rewarding system that gives players (me included), or shall i better say it, doesn’t give players proper rewards especially on higher lvl fractals. I’m tired of not getting not even a ring on the end of the lvl 50.

I’ll stop glitching when the rewards become more then 3 blues and a green and a gold on the end of the 4 dungeon lenght run.

It’s taking as long as 4 dungeon runs maybe because you’re exploiting? But then again, I have yet to encounter people that actually know how to do the bosses without bugging them when they regularly do things like this.

As Element said above… probably one of the worst excuses I’ve heard for it.

Yea my ele is the same as your 552 day one.

He’s… still bugged. Still no dev response…

If you camp fire on staff in PvE you’ll at least deal moderate damage. That’s you’re only option though. Doing it with any other attunement will end up being pathetic.

Tanky builds aren’t really a good idea. This game is about active defense, so you will always be hindering yourself the tankier you spec for.

Scepter/X + lightning hammer. It’s not something you should strive to be doing though because it’s not really best to use unless you’re in organized teams. The best LH build most of the time is 6422 piercing shards, because it is assumed your teammates will be helping with vuln. You can deal higher DPS with different trait point setups but lower crit chance is less reliable and you generally don’t use this without taking ice bow either, so you have to try to find a balance for everything.

Anyways, this is a vid I recorded to just demonstrate the general idea behind an LH rotation. It is by no means anywhere close to optimal but I set it up so that it could be repeatable and therefore helpful for people trying to understand the type of build. Hope it helps: http://goo.gl/zcwVGC

And my biggest reason for loving elementalist is that it’s simply the best. Fun, has depth, tons of utility, incredibly strong in all game modes.

Titanimite.2534:

PvE for open world: Greatsword + Sword/Warhorn and Bulls Charge. You get perma swiftness with the Signet of Rage when you unlock them.

PvE for dungeons or DPS: Greatsword + Axe/Mace

PvP: Axe/Sword + Bow (Axebow), Hammer + Bow (Hambow), or Sword/Warhorn + Bow (Shoutbow)

I also nominate this as the best answer, but I’d also like to add in that GS + axe/sword is pretty good for soloing or low manning champions/legendaries in dungeons/fractals and also GS + longbow can be pretty good in PvP if the person playing it is skilled.

I don’t hate people in general but I hate being around people that bug either of the bosses. It’s just embarrassing imo.

Come back to EU and I will pug with you and you will never see noobs bugging them again :>

Robyn be assertive. Make it so that they will feel bad about themselves for even suggesting such a thing. They won’t kick you then, at the very most they will just whine until you kick them out first. Source: myself and what happens when I pug ^^

-GS = best for groups of mobs
-Sword = best for single boss with small hitbox
-Scepter = best for single boss with large hitbox

-Hammer for blasting in fire fields/smoke fields with #2 when ooc
-Staff for giving swiftness with #3 when ooc
-Torch only if you’re soloing and using scepter really, it gives better DPS than focus but you cannot maintain UC very easily a lot of the time and shield of wrath can sometimes make the difference of keeping/losing it.

-Mace and shield basically never if you want to be optimal.

EDIT: Basically, default to GS + sword/focus and on the occasion you get a boss with a large hitbox, swap the sword to scepter. Don’t use hammer or staff in combat, hammer is really annoying because it makes it hard as hell for the eles to keep blasting fury/might due to the light field on its autochain and also if you use hammer its third hit is so slow… it doesn’t have horrible DPS if you can continue autoattacking without ever getting interrupted, but if you have to stop before your third hit connects it’s absolutely terrible.

Regardless of whether or not you can win with celestial, it’s obviously the worse choice for hambow. You should never use celestial on a warrior unless you’re using shoutheals anyways. On hambow you’d be even better off picking PTV over celestial probably, whether or not it makes me cringe to think about. Berserker is definitely best for it.

If a person playing hambow is gonna beat the person playing shoutbow 1 on 1 they definitely have the advantage if they’re both skilled players. The key is for them to time their interrupts when the shoutbow is trying to use combustive shot to proc cleansing ire. That’ll kitten em up good.

Embrace The Bold.7619:

I’d like to say as someone who regularly runs fractals and arah with a dedicated group we glitch not because we suck but because its simply easier and faster in the case of lupi. Why try if you can accomplish the same thing in less time or do something more fun (i.e. alt tab on youtube)? But that being said it would be nice if anet fixed anything related to dungeons or fractals, however it wont happen till HoT.

There is no excuse for 1shotting Lupi or bugging mossman in the water other than you can’t do it without it. They’re both slower, both unintended, neither are fun and as fracture.9754 posted above if you wanna watch youtube then go watch youtube…

ProtoGunner.4953:

Yes, that’s true and you have a point here. I finished all content 2.5 years ago the ‘intended way’ Besides, I did not know that this was a bug or exploit. I just though it was the newest way to kill him. Like it is done with all bosses, right?

And we’ve all heard the same songs 2.5 years ago too, so we don’t care about it and would rather play our own music in our videos instead.

I also don’t believe you were oblivious to it being a bug considering he doesn’t attack you and just stays still while you can autoattack him to death. If you actually played for as long as you claim to have then you’re just BSing to try to make yourself seem less hypocritical. There’s no way you will convince anyone on this forum that you thought that completely disabling a boss was a legit way to fight him.

It’s nothing to debate about, it’s that you’ll get absolutely murdered by conditions which PvP is filled with. You can take cleansing ire and spam longbow F1’s all you want but you’re not going to be doing anything but struggling to survive, and the worst part is healing surge heals way less if you do this because it depletes your adrenaline every time you cleanse your conditions.

So considering this, you can heal only 11,770 hp/min with 0 adrenaline. That’s so bad that an ele using arcane brilliance with 0 healing power and 0 targets selected can match the amount of hp/min that you restore. That’s horrible.

Paper or not, you’re arguing about something that’s been obvious to the warrior community for years – healing signet is one of our biggest advantages overall in all game modes. There are situations where it can be our downfall, but other classes would love a luxury like this.

Miku.6297:

Alot of crafting QoL improvements which would be nice
Ohh I have a few to add ~

16. Let us get rid of the black jaggy edge trim around hte outskirts of the game screen. (I never noticed this till someone mentioned it, now I can’t stop noticing it xD)

17. More ear type head pieces.

Once again, WTB fox ears so my ele can be Holo the Wise Wolf…

Only affects WvW? I’d really like to face a warrior using healing surge in PvP tbh. They’d be ridiculously easy to kill.

Agreed OP.

I’m very annoyed with the ratio of useless ascended chests to useful ones that I have:

http://puu.sh/hlRTM.png

Part of me wants to just loot them and pick the skins that look best then vendor for 1g each… but part of me also wants to hoard them instead because knowing my luck the moment I’d vendor them they would finally allow us to salvage them.

I don’t see why ele needs any help in the health department.

You go down very fast with glassy specs, but deal the absolute best aoe damage in the game.

You can trait defensively and also have some very good sustain while also maintaining enough offensive pressure to win in 1v1s in PvP.

Seems good to me.

Bump, still no official response or fix -.-

Lupicus keeps teleporting around the room randomly when no one’s out of melee range as well…

Taken from my guide:

Purple Miku.7032:

Healing

Comparisons between our heals to show how much hp/min you heal with them:
Healing Signet – 362 hp every 1 sec * 60 = 21,720 hp/min
Mending – 5240 hp every 20 sec * 3 = 15,720 hp/min
Healing Surge – 9820 hp every 30 sec (with full adrenaline) = 19,640 hp/min
Defiant Stance – varies too much

Healing Surge has little use now due to the fact that adrenaline is lost quickly when not in combat. Mending is also typically a poor choice as well because it heals worse HP/sec than everything else does.

Don’t mean to hurt your feelings but there’s little that can be offered without first advising some larger changes, such as what your goal is.

Being tanky in dungeons was useful during the days that little information about encounters was available and people in general didn’t really know what to do, but these days 3 years into the game that is not the case anymore.

Traits in defense and soldier gear are wasteful. You also don’t need condi cleansing for the most part because it’s expected that you’ll have help in that department from allies. Guardians typically trait for absolute resolution and will cleanse conditions with their virtue of resolve, or eles can drop a cleansing rain at the end of an encounter etc.

That said, take the points you put into defense and put into arms instead. A build that uses GS + axe should at the very least have fast hands, which you have, but traiting for burst skill usage is less efficient than damage over time in PvE because unlike PvP and WvW where fights tend to be short and you fight people with no higher than 30k health usually, bosses in PvE often times have over a million health. DPS > burst.

Take “Berserker’s Power” as a grandmaster trait in strength.

For more information and the full build that I suggest, take a look at the guide here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/DPS-guide-for-PvE-Dungeons-Soloing-More/first

ProtoGunner.4953:

Luckily we can do him underwater, never did it any other way since this was possible. Easy kills is always good.

Aren’t you the same person that complained on the SE p2 record just posted for not using ingame sounds/music because it’s not playing with the intended sound effects?

So it’s a tragedy for you and your immersion is ruined with music from outside sources, but no big deal for you to bug bosses to succeed? That has no impact on your level of enjoyment… ?

I would expect based off of the last thread that you would be all for playing the game “as intended.” Guess not.

You are referring to the 00266 one for PvP?

The reason is because Elemental Shielding allows you to stack protection very easily with D/D and protection is strong as hell. It’s part of the reason for D/D eles having such insane defense, coupled with other things.

Off the top of my head the auras you can get:

1. in air (shocking aura)
2. in water (frost aura)
3. in earth (magnetic grasp) on your target after you cast ring of fire will result in a flame aura (projectile finishers in fire fields do this).

This means you will have fairly decent protection uptime with just your auras alone and coupled with armor of earth just think about how much sustain that is. The build itself isn’t designed for quick fights, it’s meant for outsustaining the enemy meanwhile having enough offensive pressure to guarantee holding a point.

The tl;dr of it is that the build itself isn’t really for direct damage pressure and stone splinters is less beneficial for a celestial ele for the purpose of teamplay than Elemental Shielding is, but you can modify the build to your personal liking if you please.

Well, no it’s not going to become obsolete. Shoutbow warrior is brokenly OP for teamplay but it’s AIDS for 1v1. Warriors in PvE also are the new mightbot due to Phalanx Strength and scepter+LH eles are going to be a thing of the past once expansion comes probably.

The thing is warrior isn’t really in that bad of a shape unless you’re referring to its damage output. Arenanet still hasn’t fixed Berserker’s Power with burst skills, and pointlessly nerfed greatsword and indirectly destroyed warrior DPS with a lot of other nerfs over the year.

Right now, it’s just not where it should be damage-wise. It’s true that other classes can burst and dish out sustained DPS much better.

However, warrior still has a few things that are [brokenly] overpowered, such as Phalanx Strength in PvE.

After having tried shoutbow for several days in PvP I have to say it feels like I’m cheating when I use it. You basically cannot die against 1 person on point with it unless you let them, otherwise they will just not kill you. In terms of sustain, warriors are OP. This garbage is meta for a reason. However it can be countered, just like basically all other builds. Also D/D ele doesn’t have an easy time dealing with it, and that’s one of the most often-complained-about builds in all of PvP is it not?

Anyways, despite what any of you or I think about warrior right now it’s going to get majorly strong (at least, in PvE) on the expansion. You will see why soon enough.

P.S. – BlackTruth calls basically everyone in the game bad, yet begs people to watch his stream every other post. Keep that in mind while you decide for yourself whether or not you should take his post above or anything else he has to say seriously.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Hare%27s_Speed

Sigh.

WTB armor skin version of this so that I can use just the top, please…

I’m not sure if I would call it a bug because technically both the skill and the condition are behaving the exact way they are intended to so this is more of an oversight if anything. I don’t consider the two the exact same thing.

Unfortunately reporting things as bugs doesn’t seem to do anything either way.

If it’s not fully reviving them then it’s because the targets have poison, which reduces healing efficacy. Battle standard restores 100% of a person’s downed health, so if that person has poison it will only restore 66% of it instead.

Eh… don’t mean to be obnoxious but this belongs to:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Your-best-LFG-reads-and-puglife-stories/page/7

You don’t have to line cast her to burst her down in under 20 seconds…

Yes, tons of people find them horrifically dull. You’re not the only one.

Magnetic Aura is RNG because as dub pointed out, it only will reflect if you are in the direct center of the circle aka the exact point where the projectile lands, otherwise you just take splash damage from it landing. The same thing with magnetic wave on focus for D/F. The projectile actually has to hit you, not land near you.

BlackTruth.6813:

Calls signet build yolo but not frenzy and no points in defense.

#badattheorycrafting

I don’t know why you would expect him or anyone to care about your trash talking when you post cringe-worthy nonsense like this:

BlackTruth.6813:

Because playing as a DPS takes actual skill. Not like Power Necro, Ranger or Guardian with their infinite evades and instant cast offense and defense.

Also so good at baiting dodges and stun breaks in PvP. Literally everything you do people are inclined to dodge or burn a defensive cool down if you DO make in range.

#NeverForget

Glad you like the stream!

And yes, Kaozkrayken there is a reason for that.

Basically, meteor shower takes 3 seconds to cast and has a 9 second duration, where as ice storm is 2.75 second cast and ends briefly afterwards. Because of this, when you prestack might you will make best use of your might by using ice storm first as it’s quicker to pull off. Both skills have 24 impacts and also because ice storm’s area is smaller, the impacts are condensed into a smaller area so it makes it more reliable than even meteor shower with blasting staff.

Also if you were to do it vice versa then your might would already be dropping before the meteor shower finishes casting, and would already be done dropping before your ice storm completes.

Technically for larger targets like Lupicus meteor shower has the most potential between the two skills damage-wise, but its drawback is that it needs time to execute. Hope that makes sense.

It just doesn’t really give enough to justify taking it over other things, really. You don’t gain enough offensively from it to justify choosing it over something else for PvP and in PvE it’s just not better than other options are most of the time.

It has always seemed a little strange to me that it would be a grandmaster trait, because it needs for a fight to be very long to take proper advantage of in terms of DPS.

In PvE it’s best to take for niche situations, for example like Mai Trin in FotM, however pure axe builds are very rarely optimal.

I’d like to know this too, was wondering it myself and can’t find information in as much detail as I want anywhere.

Getting properly rewarded for completion of the game’s content? That’s not a common theme in this game, OP.

Only very specific things have worthwhile rewards, like dungeon (not to be mistaken with fotm) end chests and silverwastes. Everything else is quite frankly: http://goo.gl/zuxsGO

Chill is helpful, but swapping to air also triggers lightning strike and it’s always decent to do an ice spike/eruption while you’re waiting on fire I guess

This is the optimized staff rotation for both small and large hitbox targets.

FGS isn’t mandatory but it has good burst, especially on large hitboxes.

After this rotation completes it is optimal to stay in fire and cycle through fireball, lava font, flame burst, and meteor shower while still doing ice storm off cooldown. You have to use glyph in fire unfortunately, but it’s still more worthwhile than taking signet because it’ll help maintain the 10% damage modifier anyways.

In group fights nothing should be surviving long enough for you to need to use glyph of storms more than once anyways, so using it in fire probably won’t happen.

Meh I’ll test it again but still pretty sure it’s 3 and not 2 because two times in a row I reflected 3 hits on ele with magnetic aura… but that’s not a huge sample size anyways so it’s not too unlikely I just got lucky.

If it’s a hotjoin I never take anything but signet of rage, but on unranked/ranked I would always take warbanner yeah.

In teamplay anything besides shoutbow just seems too inefficient/pointless to me though. It’s perfect for teamplay because you have such brokenly-overpowered sustain with shouts and in full celestial, and everyone focuses you because they know it’s pointless to focus someone else when you have warbanner equipped. So, yeah. Shoutbow or bust :/

However GS/Longbow is pretty powerful for 1v1ing, whereas shoutbow isn’t really and is only good for winning on point most of the time.

Either way good thread.

For the first build or standard version, I find your selection for discipline wasteful. Seeing as you’re using runes of the pack and you aren’t going to be camping greatsword all of the time, warrior’s sprint is useless. Signet mastery would be more useful than it for signet of rage or actually, vigorous focus maybe because you have two stances.

Other than that looks good.

I’ve noticed something hilarious yet depressing. Sometimes when I go on my warrior my ping spikes up dramatically and stays high until I swap characters again. This only happens with my warrior. I’ve tested it tons of times.

Not sure why this is but it’s been going on since around the september feature patch 2014.

Are you sure it’s necessary to type essay-length replies to state your points?

Ugh. I no longer have the motivation to read the debate.

The really depressing part is tons of people are noobish enough to fall for such a simple ruse and that’s why these mails keep happening.

I suggest avoiding S/F+LH because it’s really only wise to use in non-pug, very organised groups. Staff or D/F are better ideas.

OP I suggest to read Jerus’s post. It’s in nice detail and provides good information.

Yeah we’ve had several people code add-ons that can efficiently calculate party DPS and such.

Dub from the dungeons/fractals forum and frifox are the main two that I know of.

No I’m pretty sure that is right Jerus, there’s only 3 projectiles that actually target an entity but it so happens that they happen within the short amount of time that it takes for a player to execute two dodge rolls, so if you time it properly then you’re able to avoid all 3 of them with double dodge. The rest of them are RNG, but they are dispersed throughout an enclosed area based off of where Lupicus is.

I’m quite certain that this is it because I was testing it with my ele by standing still and using magnetic aura and I’d only see 3 projectiles reflected. I can test it again but not now because I’m lagging way way too badly ingame to play.

Sorry Jerus I meant to type 3, not 2. I messed that up because I was thinking “phase two” while typing it lol. I will edit that now

YuiRS.8129:

Gern.2978:

I keep telling people that rifle is actually very effective if you trait for it, but everyone laughs at me and says that rifle is a weapon that is so worthless that it should just be deleted. Then they have this reaction when a rifle warrior smashes their face, and accuse the warrior of hacking.

It’s just this guy. And yes, Rifle is pretty bad. Everything works in WvW, though, because most people are terrible in there.

Truthful statement. There’s bad and good players everywhere but it takes ages before finding more skilled players in WvW most of the time for me.

I always use PvE builds when I go to WvW. Having your dodge key unbound seems like a fashion trend there, it’s hilarious.

She’s foolish, OP.

The only thing that is relevant to this is that his frenzied blast attack in phase 2 targets each entity a total of three times. The rest of the projectiles are RNG and will land randomly dispersed throughout the arena within a certain range. You can maximize your mesmer’s feedback by doing things such as thieves guild, glyph of lesser elementals, etc… as they will each be targeted twice for two more guaranteed projectile reflects.

spoj.9672:

Its faster in a pug. But it slows you down in a proper organised group.

Yeah this.

Also if pugs really are concerned about how long it’s taking they may as well just go 2012-mode and skip him if they’re too terrible to kill him in the first place. It’s faster anyways.

The excuse they always give is that it’s faster, but that’s obviously just a sugarcoated way of saying they can’t do it otherwise :x