Guild Wars 2

No support to OP.

Nope.

I agree with Dub.

You really can’t just fully melee the ooze. Not only that but you aren’t able to use whirlwind for any purpose other than to evade from him if he’s against a wall, so if you want to hit him at all with it then it has to be out in the open so that you can evade right through him.

Also, conditions tick even when you aren’t able to attack. While both berserker builds and condition builds require constant attacking to make sure they’re dealing as much damage as possible, the condition build is obviously the better choice for ooze lol.

Hi everyone I’m posting with a small update on the trait point allocation.

So as a lot of you may have known, I previously suggested that you go 5 into Arms with deep strikes (I) and forceful greatsword (X).

I’m changing that to rending strikes (V), which is exactly what Nike has in his recent build video, because of a few reasons.

The first reason is that in group settings you contribute more by applying vulnerability stacks than you do by a small amount of precision for yourself. Not only is this beneficial in groups, but it’s beneficial when soloing as well as it’ll increase your outgoing damage.

The second reason is that along with what I mentioned above, we don’t actually need extra precision when we’re with fury, banner of discipline and signet of fury. However, unlike the 66002 trait point setup we’re not quite as close to 100% crit chance as we’d like to be so it’s overall a better idea to add up more precision since there’s a down period of 30 seconds after banner disappears until it’s off cooldown. The point is that while it is beneficial, it’s not necessarily always better.

And finally, my third reason!

While I still feel like deep strikes would benefit a 65003 GS warrior more so in a solo setting, I’m getting conflicting results with some of my solo times on Lupicus. I’m seeing myself more easily able to push times faster. Example of this in my recent Arah P3 solo, where I got a 5:10 despite attacking him before I even pushed him to the wall, didn’t use dragon’s breath buns on the grub transition, made an absolutely disgusting mistake by wasting my block on the phase 2 > 3 transition which caused Lupi to heal with two ticks in the first life drink on phase 3, etc.

So, I’ll need to test it a bit more.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UdMUb11C0

Why are you playing GW2 if you don’t like the mechanics of the combat?

It’s not even close to decent for PvE.

But, welcome to the warrior class!

Flitzie.6082:

Dont forget about Final thrust. This skill is seriously underrated. With this spec I crit people with 8-9k damage. Most seem to forget that this is a higher DPS than the beloved hundred blades. (100b cast time is long as kitten compared to a single stab)

Quote of the century.

Antitoxin spray is absolutely terrible.

The only reason I suggested both internal fire and air training is because if he’s not using any conj weapons, it’s really a toss. He may as well use either that or pyromancer’s alacrity along with burning precision.

Note I put both V and VI, not just VI.

I completely agree. Sitting at I believe 209 pristine relics atm. :/

It’s a good thing Ropechef.

A lot of people, like me, have a problem with people that skip bosses and try to sell the path at the end. Most commonly it’s just scrubcakes that want to get credit for a path they didn’t do and effectively ruin the moneymaking method, but sometimes it’s just people that find it fun to hop around like a billygoat.

I play a little game and try to get to the highest points in Arah that I possibly can (usually if I’m selling a path and waiting for buyers) which is quite a bit different than the people skipping Lupicus or the first 3 bosses of path 4 etc.

I’ll be streaming it

I think I remember Sandy saying he’d be able to stream it too, not quite sure.

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The best all-purpose build I can really offer would be…

D/F with Sigil of Strength/Sigil of Battle
6(V VI XI)
6(VI X XII)
2(VI)
0
0

-Either Scholar/Strength runes, preferably Scholar.
-Change VI in Fire Magic to II when making use of conj weapons.

Hi Suko

Here is what I suggest for PvE:

-Only use scepter in very organised groups and if you’re using lightning hammers
-Generally avoid using dagger offhand, focus has a longer fire field and offers more utility and blasts to stack might
-Use these traits if D/F:
6(V II XI)
6(VI X XII)
2(VI)
0
0
-Use these traits if S/F (change fresh air to arcane lightning):
6(V II XI)
6(VI X VII)
2(VI)
0
0
-Use these traits if staff ele:
6(VI VII XI)
6(VI VII XI)
0
0
2(V)

-For nourishment, the absolute best possible food that an elementalist can benefit from is Plate of Truffle Steak. If you’re looking to have a cheaper alternative, get Minotaur Steaks. If you are struggling to survive I suggest Slice of Candied Dragon Roll or Omnomberry Pie.

-Use berserker armor with Scholar Runes in group content, but Strength Runes are actually better for soloing. If you don’t solo much and aren’t very competitive, get Scholar runes.

-Sigil of Battle/Sigil of Strength/Sigil of Force/Sigil of the Night/Sigil of Accuracy are all great sigils for weapons.

Why would anyone want those stats on a weapon to begin with? Just curious.

You don’t lose gold or anything in your wallet.

You don’t even know how to get to one of your own rocks BRUH. I wouldn’t be talking!

Wow, a mountain goat adventure that I don’t know?! BLASPHEMY!

Meleeing him is actually best in max melee range. It sucks you wasted your time but do you think anything can actually be done about this?

None of us know what happened there from any perspective other than the story you tell us. Even if we did, we still couldn’t do anything about it.

By the way… reporting doesn’t do anything. It’s pretty much as useful as it is to press the button on a traffic light when you’re a pedestrian that wants to cross. It’s just there to make people feel like they’re making it go faster when in reality, traffic lights won’t desynchronize themselves just to ease the mind of an impatient pedestrian… just like Arenanet won’t staff people to spend 24-7 dealing with ambiguous reports like this. :/

You rarely use signet of rage…?

wat.

Lmfao Lindbur… dat fais.

It’s technically illegal, but they don’t have to know what you’re doing to make it work.

Shhh.

http://i.imgur.com/aRvqKjY.jpg

https://twitter.com/guildwars2

There’s your confirmation.

…

I started ~1 year ago and max cleave has always been 3 with greatsword.

Lmfao peach pie, dear god… xD

I’ve mailed pugs food/nourishment before only for them to ignore it. I don’t understand people like this.

Axelwarrior.9084:

Acotje.5689:

Do you also run everywhere? Waypoints are expensive :/

Waypoints are convenient. Potions just give me a small boost that I probably won’t even notice.

How is making yourself take less damage and making yourself hitting more damage close to the cost of nothing not convenient?

I like it a lot too. I’m genuinely impressed with the quality of the new content.

Only thing I’d like is if it didn’t lag as much. I still get a consistent 10-15 FPS decrease in dry top compared to anywhere else in the game. It feels like I’m at Tequatl or something.

tl;dr of all the people whining about them not being tradeable:

“I don’t want to invest effort and/or time into playing the game for rewards and want the option of buying my success ingame.”

I don’t understand how people talking about cancer, gays, and cursing their faces off constitutes as testimonial lol

Axelwarrior: “They add up.”

???

Isn’t the lowest amount of gold you can get for any dungeon path ~1g?

It’d take over 100 paths to spend around 1g in potions in most cases, barring a few potions like outlaw slaying and undead slaying that cost slightly more than the others due to how frequent they are used.

You are wrong. There’s no excuse to not use them other than putting no thought into it.

I don’t think removing them is a good idea, but they should maybe change some of them and have them become more intense as the fractals progress.

For example…

The 39 mistlock instability where mobs explode on death causing damage + knockback could be such that it has increased cc duration + damage as you progress (in terms of first, 2nd, 3rd and 4th fractals).

The 40 mistlock instability where agony ticks occasionally while a person is in combat could tick for a few more pulses than before as the fractals progress.

There’s a lot of room for improvement with the system.

EDIT: Btw I don’t necessarily want what I listed above. I actually hate agony and think it’s a terrible mechanic and don’t really like how we know exactly what instability we’ll have on each level either. I also know a lot of people would just re-roll until they get an instability that they desire, so I think a solid solution to people picking certain levels in the tiers would be to have the instabilities randomized and changing each fractal. That’s the most practical ‘solution’ that I can think of that would be easy to implement.

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Sigh.

You are asking for opinions, so I’ll give you it but I’m not trying to offend you.

It’s horrific. I’ll respond to each of your numbered points.

1. First of all, having high survivability with passive stats is just a terrible route. This game is about active defenses (dodges/evasions/blocks) and if you don’t try to optimize your gameplay with them, you’re not supporting any team and your survivability is in fact lower than a person playing in full glass that does actively defend themself. You aren’t supposed to let yourself absorb hits from mobs… you’re supposed to try to avoid them hitting you!

2. No one is responsible for healing one another and every class has a plethora of options to defend/heal themselves. You are responsible for your own survival and even if you do get downed you can either rally or be revived. You’re wasting your time and prolonging encounters by gimping yourself, ultimately resulting in more damage taken.

3. You have extremely low DPS. So low that by comparison to someone running a berserker build with a practical trait point allocation and gear, the damage you deal will be so negligible that a party won’t even notice you’re there. Seriously you don’t understand how much you’re gimping yourself. This video is of me soloing a boss encounter to demonstrate some of the potential you’re lacking due to your build:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dyKNuEYwWs
By the way, the damage I’m dealing would be much higher with perma-25 might/fury/banner of strength/frost spirit/empowered allies/more stacks of vuln. All of these can be achieved through a proper party composition.

4. You don’t need to be carrying stun breakers with you everywhere you go… it’s ok to take shake it off every now and then but making use of your dodges/blocks would once again be much better of an idea.

Anierna.6918:

EcoRI.9273:

Wait the new LS stuff is a dungeon?!

Compare Kasmeer to the Arah NPC’s during Lupi solo’s. There, that’s dungeon-related.

Can you imagine if they gave us Varra Skylark or Randall Weyston to escort through LS2? I’m traumatizing myself at the thought.

Let’s calm down with the satanism, Lindbur

I’d like to know that too, Zaxares. I haven’t had the time to do a fotm run since the patch.

so many clueless people… that think warriors are the best in groups. L O L.

FGS would be pretty terrible without fiery rush.

I don’t know of any F1 skill that is worthless besides greatsword’s.

I think berserker’s power is a great trait because it gives you the option of choosing between consistent 15% damage increase and hoping to finish the fight/enemy with a hard crit (evisc). Longbow F1, hammer F1, mace F1, rifle F1, axe F1, and sword F1 are all frequently used and beneficial in PvP/WvW on this game. While some tend to be less practical than others, all of them seem to at least have use except for greatsword’s.

I don’t really concern myself with the awful F1 of greatsword because all of its other skills besides autoattack are so wonderful.

Izaya.2906:

Even using 1 path worth’s of tokens will give you enough for roughly 1-2 months.

For TA, scarlet’s armies slaying potion work for nightmare court too so that’s like only 6c each that’s enough for the 2 old paths and possibly aether path if you do it.

What’s strange is people would stack toughness/vitality but refuse to use slaying potions which cost next to nothing for -10% damage taken bonus.

Its roughly free 250-300 toughness to builds using full berserkers and 650-700 toughness for “tank” builds.

If even not for the considerable 10% dps gain, its a bang for your buck wrench consumable for survivability.

Quoted for truth

That’s right, and I’m pretty sure that no you can’t get either pristine relics, ascended drops or fractal weapons from 1-10.

According to rT’s fractal spreadsheet, 2 out of 39 runs from the 11-20 category were fractal weapon skins so far.

+10% damage and -10% incoming damage is a pretty big freaking difference and certainly justifies carrying them around if you plan to do dungeons.

I am currently level 10 so far on my newly-made thief. Arah solos will be happening.

Sigil of strength is bad for a warrior in PvE compared to force, but you may be right about fire. I still stand by what I said about energy sigil on sword and keeping signet mastery though.

I’ll have to check it myself. It could be still bugged, but I’m not sure. I thought they fixed it.

Nah I wasn’t joking about the mango pies thing. I normally use dragon’s breath buns or truffle steak for everything, but I keep mango pies for things like Tequatl that you can’t crit.

Ever since I’ve started playing an ele a while ago, I’ve learned how god awful everything is by comparison to heal signet and there is no shame in wanting regen. It’s at least relevant, unlike magic find. I suggest candied dragon rolls for everything that you can crit though since they’re better and heal more.

NACotser.4125:

Purple Miku.7032:

Something like mango pies.

Anytime I see ‘Gain Health Every Second, +70 Vitality’ I think “Great, another PTV Warr/guard/whatever.”

I know, but I get that same feeling when I see “+30% magic find” or “+__ gold from monsters.” It feels like they’re on a completely different agenda and are interested in killing trash mobs hoping for blues/greens and crap. It’s just an assumption based off of my past experiences but I also feel the same way when I see AP requirements on the LFG— I just assume they’re idiots immediately.

People that use either magic find food or none at all I generally diagnose as a noob. I too notice the lack of potion use, but lack of food use too. I don’t care if not everyone has the money for truffle steaks. You can at least buy the low tier food or something like mango pies.

maha.7902:

Does soloing suddenly mean it doesn’t count as a dungeon anymore and is therefore not dungeon meta?

It’s very niche still. It’s better against heavy armor bosses only, and in solos only. By no means is it dungeon meta…