Guild Wars 2

The silverwastes one is the only one that I refused to do without a friend guiding me through all of it because it’s not much of a jumping puzzle but more of a game of memory and guessing.

SlyDevil.3952:

Also PSA: versatile power on warrior had an ICD placed on it stealthily, no more bundle spam.

Saw this in patch notes actually, this wasn’t a stealth fix.

Talyn.3295:

That is some cringe worthy activity there. I have heard people talk about the EU Gulds before but kinda always chalked it up as people being people. Can’t say I have ever noticed any guilds or players doing that on NA, Dungeon guilds or otherwise.

Regardless of what region ya play in there are good players and bad players in both, and the LFG is for the most part awful in both :P

dominik.9721:

everything is viable in this game

FTFY

OT: The problem with your thread OP is that you’re using the wrong word; viable means by definition “capable of working” and the answer to that is pretty much always going to be yes, considering it’s possible to win in PvE, PvP and WvW even if you’re naked sometimes.

If you want better answers, ask your question better. Do you mean to ask if it’s the best option? Do you mean to ask how it compares with the best option?

There’s not nearly enough detail provided to be able to determine what the problem is. This thread is useless in that regard. Too many things could result in lower damage.

deSade.9437:

Why are almost unknown dungeon guilds so freaking tryhard? It’s absolutely ridiculous. And pathetic in some cases.

It makes me cringe too because I’m pretty sure I know exactly what kind of players you’re referring to. The scrubs that try to act like they are bigshots in pug groups by intentionally making things inconvenient for the others and harpy feathering instead of blasting stealth, and make huge deals out of trivial things like whether or not the group comp is ele/ele/thief/guard/warrior, etc etc…

Agemnon.4608:

How is that an “exploit”? Exploit implies an illegitimate tactic and nothing mentioned here is illegitimate.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Warrior-does-Less-DPS-than-the-WORST-class/first#post5453334

It happens to all dredge in the game but it also happens to some other mobs too, for example last boss of AC p3 leaves a hidden hitbox after he dies too but it never disappears.

Chances of this getting addressed = sadly probably the same chance of them fixing teleport skills from mobs.

I just can’t find enough use for this in PvE. It’s not terrible damage in fire with it, but the problem is it’s not better DPS than to just autoattack + lava font on staff. It makes me sad but this elite specialization seems overall really poor for the game’s current content.

I don’t think it’s gonna have a purpose for anything other than maybe raids… we’ll have to see. As far as dungeons and fractals are concerned, tempest is almost entirely useless.

Main problems for tempest not having use:
a) traits are just lousy overall, nothing stands out as spectacular and they aren’t better than the other traitline options for the most part
b) doesn’t deal highest damage or replace anything else, resulting in it not fulfilling any role in a group
c) warhorn skills aren’t that good in general… some are decent, but nothing in particular stands out as that great
d) overloading has a longgg cast time, which prevents you from being able to cast other things.

I am surprised nobody else that’s seen this thread has had this happen to them before :/

I guess that lessens the chance for them to want to fix it.

Elementalist, warrior, thief, engineer. Depends on the path but these four tend to be the best options most of the time for soloing

KhainPride.3987:

yeah its fine for pve

not so good in wvw for me at the moment since players arent static and its a ranged meta.

I’m not so sure I agree with it being fine for PvE because it doesn’t add a whole lot to gain from in it. If you think about it, what use would somebody in PvE have for pulsing stability, stunbreak on activation etc? The only one of the new rage abilities with use in PvE also is the 600 range leap that applies 10 vuln, the transformation itself is pretty underwhelming.

Name one person here who claims PvE isn’t easy to win in.

Anyone who thinks this is about whether or not it’s easy or difficult to beat content is completely irrelevant to the discussion, so go elsewhere if you’re not interested.

Actually I’m not even joking, this is going to be my next monthly giveaway challenge now.

More information will come within a day or so!

Thanks Frifox!

Okay so here was my solo DPS on korga with normal and easily repeatable circumstances, solo setting:

https://youtu.be/HknHJVGbvCY

Korga’s hp: 1,497,440
Total time of kill from first to last hit: 3:55:18 (3 minutes, 55 seconds, 18 milliseconds) or 235.18 seconds.

1497440 / 235.18 = 6367.2, or ~6367 DPS in a solo setting on a boss that’s moving for most of the time and I have much less opportunity to attack him constantly.

Beat my time on this boss on a necro then, someone.

In fact, I will pay in gem codes if you can beat my Korga time with a necro. Hell, possibly more. Let’s put that necro DPS to the test!

frifox.5283:

If you want to win an argument, fight in the same environment. Do something impressive in pug run and show them the proof. Presenting video of a perfectly executed encounter isn’t helping, nemesis doesn’t consider that a “valid” argument.

See this is what he was telling me to do.

I just kept honest and outright refused to play his games because I already know what’s going to happen… so I won’t waste my time.

Provided I do everything right, it won’t matter because he’s not the kind of person that’s ever going to admit to being wrong. He wouldn’t have made his videos if he wasn’t absolutely convinced he was the messiah and everything he speaks is factual and that he isn’t biased, and I know that this is the type of guy that will go through any desperate length to cling to his bullkitten beliefs.

I’m not going to waste my time recording something and spend all of this time calculating things perfectly for him with slowed down video evidence and combat logs and whatever other bullkitten he wants just for him to look for another way to call me a filthy exploiter (I mean seriously, whirlwinding into a wall = glitching a boss?????).

I don’t even know why I gave in to my temptations in the first place… usually I’m a lot better these days at resisting the urge to tell idiots off, I guess I just couldn’t handle it last night.

Well see, the way I calculated my DPS on crusher/hunter was so profoundly simple it’s dumbfounding. If he really wants less cherry-picked results, which is ironic as all hell since that’s exactly what he does, then why doesn’t he just grab one of my many other videos?

I’ll do the same thing with Korga if I can figure out his exact hp value, I just don’t know how to set up any DPS meters so I’m gonna have to ask somebody else to get it for me.

Ugh.

Thanks guys, I don’t know what I’d do without you xD

I’m literally in shock that I’m being accused of exploiting because I’m using whirlwind in front of a rock. Like, holy mother of Ebola.

EDIT: Also why the hell are these two even bringing up a video of like, my third ever mossman solo from almost a year ago? That’s not even close to the fastest time that I have done which was almost half the speed of it, which was also longer than a half a year ago and I even did it on stream too. That was also when warrior was at one of its weakest states as far as personal DPS is concerned.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Warrior-does-Less-DPS-than-the-WORST-class/first#post5454691

I’m really hoping they shut the hell up now.

I’ll just post this here since I finally got annoyed enough with his fanboys spamming my youtube notifications enough to do it.

https://youtu.be/B78o5uBUZG4

In this video I kill crusher from first hit to last hit in precisely 1 minute, 21 seconds, 21 milliseconds (1:21:21) or just 81.21 seconds. The crusher has exactly 1,087,940 health.

1087940 / 81.21 results in exactly 13,396.626, or roughly ~13.4k DPS over the course of the entire fight, which was in a solo setting.

The video nemesis showed has somebody using a suboptimal warrior build for personal damage along with suboptimal utility choice and a suboptimal rotation, and he also starts the timer like 6 seconds early or some pathetic kitten like that. For his necro video he gets fully buffed from a phalanx warrior, EA, both banners, frost spirit, and more… even gets to use his 180 second cooldown burst for the duration of the 30 second encounter, and gets personal DPS barely better than what I was able to do in a completely solo setting.

Yet this is the same kid who claims that a warrior in a group gets supposedly 2k less DPS than me who isn’t maintaining 25 might, isn’t getting EA, isn’t getting both banners, and isn’t getting frost spirit with 25 vuln on the boss. I’m completely by myself in my video. What do you think my sustained DPS would be if I were to have all of these things, hmmm?

I’d have 320 extra power from both banner of strength and EA, I’d have several hundred power more for a large portion of the encounter since I wasn’t sustaining 25 might this entire time, I’d have an additional ~20-22% more damage from having 25 vuln sustained on the boss instead of 2-3, etc etc… you get the picture.

But you know what?

I have the basic decency to admit that my video is an unrealistic demonstration of what normally happens in fights. I have 25 bloodlust stacks here, I start the fight on full adrenaline without having to activate signet or use the shout heal to get it, I was able to use scholar runes, and I was able to perfectly position the two bosses to convenience myself by ensuring they were in cleave range at all times. On top of that, crusher is a lightly armored boss, which totally skews the results in my favor.

Because of this, I am not posting a video trying to trick thousands of people into believing something that’s untrue and skewed in my favor. Why don’t I do this, you might ask?

Well the answer is quite simple:

It’s because I’m not a scumbag with a hidden agenda.

Batresh is also the same person from one of Nemesis’s older videos who claimed Nemesis was a skilled player because he could do all of the Living Story achievements and was comparing it to that of Sesshi’s record mossman solo.

This is the kind of person we’re trying to reason with. It’s like trying to teach calculus to a chihuahua. It’s just not gonna happen. Try as you might, all that will result is getting snarled at with a face full of hatred.

NikeEU.7690:

I hate having to fight these reddit wars by myself.

M8 plz, I feel like I’m co-starring with you in the re-enactment of The 300 here.

Summary of what I feel about this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3jle2h/the_meta_is_a_lie/cuqa9ch

But to make the comment more accessible a direct quote:

“Sigh, if only this guy would stop skewing data in his favor constantly just to fit his agenda…

I’ve noticed he always uses examples of pugs kicking him from groups because he’s on a necro. After it happens, he groups basically every single person who uses builds that involve berserker gear into one mesh of people that he kittens on in every single video that he uploads.

Good players tend to already know pugs are morons, berserker gear doesn’t magically make someone a good player because all it does is just give you better attributes for dealing damage. There’s really nothing special to it. The fact that so many people are idiots and kick people for gear/class all the time is annoying, but it’s even more annoying whenever a Nemesis video pops up claiming necros have better DPS than warriors (lol, how many times has he tried to prove that by now, this the third time?) and so many clueless people believe everything he says… ugh.

One of his worshippers just accused me of “glitching” a boss because I use whirlwind attack into a wall to prevent myself from moving. You just can’t seem to reason with people like this— they’re not looking to be proven wrong, they’re already posting with the mentality that they’re right no matter what and if anybody opposes them they will either completely ignore or dish out insults. This is why I and so many people can’t stand this guy— he acts like he is so strongly against elitism on this game yet he promotes hate in every single one of these videos."

Ah you’re right I forgot that dealing damage is glitching. Thanks for pointing that out. I hope I don’t get banned for sharing the super secret exploit of whirlwinding into a wall to prevent myself from moving…

Anybody looking to cringe so hard that your ribs crack?

You’ve been warned:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/warrior/Warrior-does-Less-DPS-than-the-WORST-class/first

I tell you what.

Get Nemesis or yourself to take your necro, and do this faster than me on my warrior then.

https://youtu.be/B78o5uBUZG4

Or maybe this one: https://youtu.be/Qb5Wtak78dk

Or hell, maybe this one! https://youtu.be/HknHJVGbvCY

And in case you’re wondering what the difference would be without bloodlust stacks, I also have a recording of a crusher+hunter solo done in 1:36 with strength runes and without pre-killing the hunter to avoid the poison gas. Bloodlust stacks account for less than 8-10 seconds on that fight in particular.

If you can’t or don’t want to do it, then take other videos on my channel. Search for Goku on youtube while you’re at it, just quit linking idiotic videos with somebody comparing a PHALANX WARRIOR with a necro and then skewing his data with starting the timer for when the warrior helps blast in a combo field before starting the fight.

Edit: for the record, Brazil’s rotation was not perfect on that initial bloomhunger kill. Also you and him really need to quit saying “DPS uptime” because it makes no sense. DPS is a calculation of damage per second over a specific length of time, so the word uptime has absolutely no relevance.

And also you really need to edit out the end of your comment because that’s just embarrassing. Neither Nike or Brazil are to blame for anything. Tons of people make their own builds.

Do you think that I make mine based off of what either they say? No. We happen to pick the same things most of the time because we know the class well enough to pick what is best— a result of actually knowing the game!

All of the best PvE guilds make their own builds by discussing it with others and testing things. Nike publishes his guides and builds, because that’s what he does. He popularises his calculations and findings. You’re making a stupid mistake pinning any responsibility on him for this at all.

I think most people these days know who this guy is and would rather laugh at his videos or ignore him altogether because it’s just too much cringe to handle.

In the end it’s just another insane efficiency-hater with the most myopic viewpoint imaginable, looking for any and every reason to mock everybody that doesn’t wanna play with less effective setups in PvE. The only difference between him and others is because he makes videos and has thousands of subscribers, he has the power to actually trick people into believing what he says.

It’s sad really.

Hey, could a fix to this please be in the works? It’s been around for years and I have made a thread about it once in the past and seen others complain about it before but I have not once heard of any word of it being looked into.

I play on EU but I live in NA and made my account first on Darkhaven, been on Desolation however since 2013.

As a result, every single time that I put myself in “invisible” or “busy” status, then if I forget to change it back to “online” the next time I open the game I will have the LFG for NA servers appear for me. Obviously this will result in network errors every time I try to join an instance, since I’m on EU servers.

This bug only happens to those that transfer across regions. If I were to have made my account initially on EU servers, then there would be no issue with me showing up on the wrong LFG.

The only way to fix the problem is to turn the status back to “online” and then restart the client. It will not fix if you merely log out, only if the client itself is restarted.

Not only do I post this requesting a fix to this long-standing problem, but it might help explain what the problem is to anybody else that’s noticed this happen before.

Regards.

I don’t think you guys supporting the idea of a power berserker elite spec build in group dungeons/fractals understand the role of the warrior.

It’s not like it can’t work but there’s no reason to use it unless you’re alone. In groups the warrior’s role is very niche for dungeons and fractals and isn’t there for any reason other than buffing others. That’s its job, and the elite spec doesn’t help with that.

The increased attack speed and crit chance has potential to be good for solos though.

Remember: everything is viable, but not everything can be optimal.

Talyn.3295:

deSade.9437:

Move to eu, Tallinn? <.<

I have thought about it.

But I am allergic to lag, and I got a couple of friends who would kill me if I moved to where I couldn’t play with them. They are like the only three I have left, but they are really good ones.

I have thought about creating a Free account on EU to see how bad it would be to laggy.

If you have Time Warner prepare to get kittened relentlessly.

You won’t be rubberbanding, you’ll be slingshotting.

I will try to help your decision by explaining it in a little bit more of detail for you.

Thing is, once you learn the mechanics of encounters on this game for dungeons & fractals you’ll start to realise that as far as combat efficacy is concerned none of the attributes besides power, precision, ferocity and condition damage will matter. In all optimal circumstances, the best gear set will always be a combination of these 3 attributes with I guess some rare circumstances with condition duration (givers prefix).

That said, celestial gear does not excel in any particular attribute at all as it gives almost evenly-distributed stats. Healing power is not needed for combat unless you for whatever reason want to go all-out healing. Toughness and vitality can be helpful for people that are trying to learn and do not feel comfortable with the game’s mechanics, but see the thing about gear is that it is expensive to replace and maximise.

tl;dr – Not really, it’s never the best choice. Is it ascended? What you could do with this box is pick the celestial item then use the mystic forge to convert it to something else should you want to.

Bumping to announce that I will still be helping with warrior trials, but most of my trialing responsibility is concentrated on elementalists right now due to the fall semester having started for me.

Sangi.6901 will be the default warrior trialer for the time being, though you may still feel free to contact me for them as well!

Tyvm for the kind words and post Zel!

It took long but I’m quite pleased with the turnout — it’s the most commonly-viewed of the class guides on dulfy’s site iirc and I’m contemplating adding a specific dungeons section like the warrior guide has as well… time will tell, it would be quite time consuming so we’ll have to see ^^

dboylolz.3916:

Normally I would defend Goku, but he bought the wings so no it’s not allowed

+1

<3 Mr. President

Yeah I agree, free players shouldn’t be allowed to play in any WvW maps besides EotM.

That would solve most of the problems…

koen.4729:

this forum is starting to turn into a negativity hub

Implying it hasn’t been all along?

In all seriousness tho Adid, think about how long we’ve been waiting for these announcements. While the expansion certainly will be worth playing for most of us, does what we’ve seen really justify them taking almost a full year just to tell us about the raids?

To me it doesn’t.

I don’t have any excitement but I’ll play nonetheless. I think this announcement was long overdue, as usual… after enough time passes things just become less interesting I guess.

Either way I have the expansion so I’ll be trying it out.

Oh god FFX…

My favorite RPG from 10 years ago x_x

Dangit Talyn your picture makes me want to go upstairs and dust off my PS2 now and it’s like 1 am ;-;

Yeah fishball I know how that feels all too well, it’s awful.

But I had the luxury of testing latency differences compared to what I’m used to on EU, cause I was given the luxury of testing an NA account for the hell of it.

It’s just… weird.

Like, I press the keybind to dodge and my character is doding the same instant that I’m pressing the button… wtf? Feels like the game is spying on me and reading my mind.

Also I went to Lupi and it was strange… I actually had to wait a second after Lupi began his kick animation before pressing the button to dodge, same thing with his autoattacks in phases 2 and 3. It felt really cool but like… idk, it’s just strange because on EU it’s not possible to dodge these things unless you press the button the exact same time he begins the animation, so it’s necessary to an extent to just memorise the exact intervals in time when he’s going to use an attack.

The ping I had on NA was ~60 and it was wireless when I was testing it too. It really put it into perspective how much of a sacrifice it can be to play with friends :P

SlyDevil.3952:

Purple Miku.7032:

Yeah that’s the problem — it’s not really a good skill to reactively evade attacks with because it has a cast time and because the evade frame doesn’t last for the full duration of the skill’s animation. It’s only useful for damage, positioning, and stacking might(+fury) most of the time :P

Good thing guild wars is based around active combat with noticeable tells on enemies so we have time to react with our skills, right?

Well it’s not like I said you can’t use it for that. It’s a lot less reliable than just dodging is though. It also doesn’t matter how noticeable a tell is sometimes, if you have high ping then you cannot reactively evade it sometimes because it can mean the damage happens at the start of an animation or sometimes a fraction of a second before it depending on how bad it is.

deSade.9437:

Useless piece of kitten skill on a (not useless, alas) piece of kitten profession. I wish it weren’t this strong because I loathe it with all my heart. I confirm the sentiment I’ve been having towards elly for over a year now: excruciating. Solo done, not gonna touch it again with a 100feet pole.

Next time I complain about ranger dodges being unreliable and clunky? remind me of this moment. And hit me with a baseball bat so i remember better.

Yeah that’s the problem — it’s not really a good skill to reactively evade attacks with because it has a cast time and because the evade frame doesn’t last for the full duration of the skill’s animation. It’s only useful for damage, positioning, and stacking might(+fury) most of the time :P

deSade.9437:

Why is burning speed so kittening useless?

Combine it with dragon’s tooth + phoenix at the start of an encounter and swap to staff during burning speed’s cast. It hits for pretty high damage! Not useless at all

SlyDevil.3952:

HwaRyun.1807:

but we did the path anyway and it was only at the end that the warrior realised he didn’t have any backpiece or trinkets on.

I did a path 2 arah and soloed lupi for the party, found out the same thing after as well. Good thing my abysmal damage blended right in.

I didn’t do this in a 5 man or a pug, just a casual run I think with 2 friends but I was using an outfit on my warrior so I couldn’t see armor. I solod orbs and completely forgot to change back to berserker and normal traits since I went afk right after that. When I got back I completely forgot about needing to swap back to the Arah GS + normal armor/traits, only did utilities and rushed over to them before they started.

So we killed Lupicus with me having ~1500 healing power and orb solo traits. :>

Instead of getting a black screen I’ve had something else happen to me for ages.

When I go underwater in many areas and then leave, I’ll notice that my character along with enemy models will be invisible or my weapons won’t be visible. It lasts for like 5 or so seconds then everything reappears.

It’s weird.

Omfg I’m so glad this is gone.

All of my friends and I thought it was a bug that it would close the client… was so annoying.

Happened often to me since I always relog with F12 to go to character select, and sometimes if I’m typing and accidentally hit F12 when I mean to hit F11 to open up options

Thanks for removing this Anet! I mean, it would have been fine to maybe make this customizable or just make it another combination instead of space+F12 and it would’ve been fine too.

I think I would die of embarrassment if I was caught wearing those.

-cringe at the thought-

I think the reason a lot of people aren’t using them is self-explanatory…

Hey guys, I wrote a very long document outlining changes that I think guardian, warrior, and elementalist all need to see that I sent in a while ago and I’d like to contribute what I wrote for Lava Axe in particular.

Here is what I wrote for it:

“Lava Axe

Currently Lava Axe has just about no use due to the fact that it doesn’t deal enough damage nor does it offer significant enough mobility or utility to justify using over something else.

What could be done to make this conjure more attractive:

1. Either increase the base damage of the autoattack slightly or increase the cast time, making it a noticeable DPS increase to use over regular weapons.
2. Change the third skill, Burning Retreat, to behave exactly like that of the staff counterpart’s version (same damage, same evade frame, same duration).
3. Change the fourth skill, Ring of Fire, to behave exactly like that of the dagger offhand counterpart’s version (same damage, same amount of burning stacks, same duration).
4. Increase the damage of Flame Leap significantly. This skill has the exact same animation as warrior’s Eviscerate, which is one of their most powerful burst skills available, but it is on a longer cooldown and deals less damage."

I wasn’t expecting them to release something better than the current options on elementalist anyways, because I’m not a PvP player and in PvE elementalist is borderline brokenly overpowered :P

The major disappointment from me is that I don’t get to use sword on ele tbh. I was looking for something in between the DPS of dagger mainhand and staff, so that there’d be more build diversity.

Sadly, Tempest is probably the 2nd most underwhelming elite specialization so far… Dragonhunter being the worst.

On that note… if I were to quit this game, I would need a hell of a lot better reason than this. It’s not like I was only looking forward to playing this game all of this time just for Tempest… in fact it was one of the things I least cared about. What I want is bug fixes, new dungeons, and raids. Preferably some other meaningful activities to do besides just combat-related ones too.

This happens to me all the time, but I’ve talked to a few friends that play just as often or even more often than I do all with much better hardware than me and they don’t run into the problems of aoe range indicators either not appearing or appearing at the same time/after you already have taken damage.

I think it has to do with either your connection, certain hardware, or a combination of both.

Molten Duo is the only one that I think bugs for everybody else with the completely invisible aoes, but I know from firsthand experience it’s literally impossible for me to reactively dodge most of firestorm’s aoes because i take damage before I see anything appear on the floor at all.

Do you also have problems with Molten Duo? If so, you and I probably have these issues based off of what I said I think are the likely causes.

EDIT: By the way, I don’t mean my post to imply that I don’t think anything should be done to help alleviate these problems, oh no. I certainly feel like there are many bosses in this game that deserve upgrades on their aoe indicators (like Bloomhunger got a long time ago). I just wanted to try to help explain what the problem is.

If there are people who don’t experience issues with aoe indicators at Mai Trin at all, which there are, then yeah… it can help narrow down the root cause of the problems.

Awesome sander.