Guild Wars 2

Why the 4 points in fire ?

I settled on NSP. Thank you all for your help and recommendations.

Chaba.5410:

What size? EV on Fort Aspenwood runs about 5. There’s also a guild called Lone on FA for roamers.

Anywhere from 5-15 but I would like to just keep it to a roaming guild team of 5 as that’s what I enjoy most. I know I want out of gold league and silver league looks promising. I enjoy fighting Mag, but everyone else its just thief thief thief thief and a 40+ zerg about 1200 range away. It’s getting annoying. I don’t mind the thieves, just not when I’m getting zerged over at the same time.

Well I know NSP has tM and Os, but I’ll keep looking. Thank you both for the help so far.

I’m looking for a server/roaming guild in the t3-t5 range that works well together and emphasizes small man fights, potentially taking on outnumbered fights. Was wondering if anyone had any recommendations or could point me in the right direction. Getting tired of the uber zerginess of kitten.

Chaos Archangel.5071:

@Toggle: Haven’t tried it in WvW yet, but I know QQing is, they and I shared notes and theories in-game and it’s looking like there’s almost definitely WvW potential with this trait.

I spent some time with Chaos whispering back and forth and testing d/d healing potential in the PvP lobby and than took the build into WvW to test it myself. I found the builds sustain and group support very interesting.

I did not go crazy trying to min/max the numbers, but with Celestial armor and cleric weapons/trinkets with Strength runes and Sigil of Battle/Water or Energy (fan of both to be honest) you can achieve 37.5% outgoing healing (after stacking benevolence) to your group with about 1200-1300 healing power while still maintaining power of at least 2100 after might stacking in a 0/0/2/6/6 build. Note that the Strength runes and Sigil of Battle are must haves IMO if you want to do decent damage, but this build works best in a group that already has good damage output. After healing food and Sharpening Stones etc etc the numbers were as follows:

Assuming a rotation of dodging into water attunement to get the water attunement heal + Evasive Arcana’s Cleansing Wave /w dagger #5 + Cone of Cold and factoring the passive healing from Soothing Mist’s regen etc, I was able to burst heal myself for approximately 11,000 health every 40 seconds and burst heal my group for about 15,000 health. Given the Cleansing Wave’s cooldown of 40 seconds , every 10 seconds you can burst heal for approximately 8,500 self and 12,000 group until dagger #5 Cleansing Wave is off cooldown again. (not saying you will go into water attunement every 10 seconds but that’s the builds potential). The healing output is just insane.

Sorry if my post is hard to understand. I woke up not long ago and have not drank much of my coffee yet so my brain is not working optimally :P.

For WvW would you recommend full cleric or a mix of gear? Full cleric would leave your power relatively low.

No, you have the same amount, you just allocate them 5 at a time instead of 1 point at a time. I seriously doubt people were playing a 2/30/24/14/0 build …

Bunda I’m gearing a rampager build now, I’ll post my findings.

Only thing is I’m debating if I want to spend the money and see how the old soldiers/cleric ele is with all this might stacking. I’m not sure how I want to gear now that crit isn’t as important :-/

I’ve played with the strength runes using 0/10/10/20/30 … it’s nice

Cause people can’t let go of the boon duration :P

Revert it to how it was over a year ago, where it stayed still and did it’s friggin job. Pleeeeease ( ’ . ’ )

So realistically there is no reason to get new gear (I wasn’t glass) and fine to just shove the Strength runes on my armor unless I want to be knit-picky and min/max ?

Now I have to figure out what gear to run with Runes of Strength. Smh

Condi guardians as far as the eye can see.

Shame the new fire GM trait is single target Here I was wanting an OP perma blind ele :P

The clones aren’t wearing the same clothing as the wardrobe. No bueno ..

FrownyClown.8402:

I wish I could share my build with you right now. It will have to wait until after the update. I’ve had great success with my d/f build. It’s a high dps build and I can kill anyone 1v1. Works great in group fights too. My hint is fresh air and one with air.

I’ve been running this also but I keep switching between water/arcane and earth for DPS increase and other utility. Decisions decisions….

WvW is becoming more pointless by the week, all we have to look forward to are decent skins (meh) as a reward. It’s been months for Account Bound WXP, seriously…. months, what gives? The devs always ask the community for our opinions on how things can improve, well we can start by you guys actually listening to what the players SAY we want instead of doing what you THINK we want. Your game has long term potential if you get yourselves together and collaboratively listen to your players once in a while. At least roll out the Account Bound WXP and class balance changes before season 2 officially starts to spice things up, because we sure as hell know Season 2 is going to be an epic failure since the development team constantly repeats itself.

This patch is a major letdown as is this development team. Maybe they could send some guys over from Wild Star to come help you get the content out that you mentioned before 2015 hits? Wild Star is terrible and you clearly need the help here..

Seriously, I wanted to put this in a nice way, but does your team seriously test ANYTHING that they release? You constantly release armor, traits and skills etc that are kitten or broken upon release, than take MONTHS for them to fix it. How about you learn to release content properly instead of shoving it in everyone’s faces like fat kids with cake. Get your kitten together Anet.

1. Mesmer (at least fix the focus and iLeap bugs with terrain…)
2. Ele
3. Engi

Said mesmer also steals candy from babies and players named Bob.

I know this player you speak of, we are almost like BFFs Bill n Ted style. Also, he doesn’t use focus anymore.

He also owes me alimony.

Where is my hotfix -.-

They have been at work long enough to have seen this. This is inexcusable.

Anyone home Anet? It’s bad enough the other mesmer bugs aren’t fixed yet. At least fix the one that you caused to completely BRICK the class.

Go to 18:45 , I’m assuming Carp meant this fight.

I forgot about that vigor. I take it for granted until it’s gone

It’s interesting that you brought up using both CI and Imbued Diversion in a build because I was planing to test it this weekend. I just can’t decide where to put the last 10 points, obviously it would be 0/0/30/0/30. I’d imagine it would be best used as a shatter build so it would make sense to get the 20% Mind Wrack damage I suppose. I need to play with it.

Could you perhaps re-link the build with the changes to the build editor ? About half the gear is missing and the traits are all messed up. I figured there was more carrion in the build other than the weapons since you called it a carrion build.

This is bullkitten. Way to listen to all the whiney kittens.

I tried using it last night while roaming myself and peaked at 20 stacks of might, usually was able to stay at 15. I feel like it suits a build better that might use Hoelbrak runes or something similar.

Did you get to test out Bountiful Interruption ?

Little sad they aren’t replacing the magic find on celestial with a useful stat. Adding power would be too OP, but why not replace magic find on celestial with boon duration ?

The first 33% nerf to grenade damage wasn’t enough for you ?

Yeah, one condition every 10s in a wvw environment isn’t really worth it. I just wish signet of fire, or more of the signets for that matter, were 5 targets instead of 1. It would be very viable. Doesn’t mean I won’t waste me gold anyway ^^

The build seems interesting. The only thing that really bothers me about signets (water or earth) is that they are single target. I might tamper with this a little bit, maybe substitute lighting flash to make that curbing earth to right into the middle of people.

Eh, I have to work out what the stat distribution would be (total attack, armor, crit change etc) before traits. It could be, but I’m terrible at math. Plus I need to find out the formulas for how toughness etc works into armor and the like …

Has anyone worked out the math yet for stat’s (total attack, crit %, armor etc) of full celestial gear (armor, trinkets etc) before choosing traits?

@Crawford.4135

Since you keep mentioning toughness and healing, perhaps there was an error stating your build is 0/25/0/30/15 ? You made it sounds like you have the 30 points in SA.

More gear to buy

I’m running out of space ANet give me a break !

If I stuck with just one class for WvW, I doubt I would be even half as good with you. Your damage might not be great but your substain is amazing. I can’t wait to see more. Very entertaining.

For zergs I have my builds that I use, glamour related most of the time just because you can’t pass up on the utility. Phantasms used to be my go-to roaming build. I should have specified what I was asking help for in my origin post.

You made me reminisce on the good old confusion days

I just haven’t settled on my build for group play kittenter. I usually switch between 20/20/0/0/30 for shattering with boon striping or the classic 0/20/20/0/30. I’m not dead set on either. Each has its uses to me.

Thank you all for the replies this far.

@Blackdevil.

I’m intrigued by that hybrid of using rampages and soldiers gear. I haven’t thought about that. It seems to take advantage if the bleeds quite well. I might give it a go later, quit tired of feeling forced into shatter when I’m roaming with a small group.

Now that they moved Illusionists Celerity, I find myself having trouble figuring what traits I want to take as a phantasm mesmer in WvW. It seems I have to choose more damage or phantasm health vs decreased cooldowns. Has anyone found a trait setup they like or found comparable to the old builds when Illusionists Celerity was a minor adept trait?

I’d rather we get stomped and learn more than fight AR and BP for the 3rd month in a row ^^

Yeah I’m getting it down. Didn’t know the cleansing burst wasn’t immediate so I need to get the timing down before using blast finishers.