Guild Wars 2

Got all my gear ^^, sitting at 20k hp and just shy of 3k armor. I must admit though, I’m new to using the healing turret and it’s water field. Is there a standard rotation to maximize the blast finishers? I’m pretty bad at this part.

Same for Ebay on all maps

Just realized, can always use settler’s gear for trinkets from Southsun, prioritized toughness over healing but still.

Yeah I have quite a large WvW guild plus a thief I duo with (played with him for years). I’ll play around with the trait lines, see what I like. Anyway, thanks for the input.

If I didn’t have alt-its and played all 7 of my characters in WvW, I would lol. I haven’t even touched fractals in months. Still on level 9.

I’d like to play around with a build (something like 10/0/30/20/10) with half apothecary and half shamans, but I’m running out of bank room for sets of gear for my engie TT.

Yeah I figured you had to have some shaman’s mixed in but I didn’t want to make any assumptions. I did the same thing for my troll thief regen build. Also even though the prices came down, passiflora jewelry is still expensive.

Joe.4178:

yeah its on the comments above if you’re asking about traits, I run a different build then that forums post but its similar and you can manipulate it in a way to support your group

I was more interested in the Armor and Trinket stat’s. It doesn’t seem like you ran full apothecary’s in the third video given the damage on some of the conditions and the fact that you are at about 21k health.

I’m curious as to what your attributes were in the third video. Care to share ?

Looking for opinions, for a condition duration engineer using either pistol/pistol or grenades as their main weapon in WvW:

Sigil of Generosity

60% chance to transfer a condition to your foe on critical hit. (Cooldown: 10 Seconds)

or

Sigil of Earth

+60% Chance on Critical: Inflict Bleeding (5 Seconds) ?

I figure each has its pros/cons. I’m leaning towards generosity for extra condition removal and the chance of transferring a condition other than a bleed to a target.

I have. It’s just I’m so used to confusion shatter that I’m reluctant to change

I mainly used it in small havoc groups or when teaming with my thief friend. I’ll try it out this week since I finally have a few days off work. Thank you all for the replies.

I’ve been working lately and haven’t had time to log on to test it. I know glamour builds kitten the bucket, but are shatter confusion builds still worth playing or was that completely destroyed also? Only way I can see them being viable is you are able to burst many stacks on a few targets… Just looking for others opinions while I’m stuck at work.

All they had to do to fix confusion was nerf glamour builds by putting a target limit on it. Instead they made it tickle and said, hey, spam 1,1,1,1,1 and win. Lets not have people think while we fight :-/

I’ll give it a shot. Right now I’ve been using a chill duration build with blind well and plague, which is fun but gets boring sometimes. I feel like a traited SWall alone is more useful sometimes.

I love Spectral Attunement but I can’t wrap my head around how to make it useful for zerg busting. Obviously I would take 20 in Curses for longer duration and at least 10 in Soul Reaping for cooldown reduction. Anyone have an idea where the remaining points wold work best? I’d hate to drop staff, I need to have some badges you know

Nice video. One question, do you find it’s imperative to have the ten points in Firearms or would it be detrimental to move it to Tools for Speedy Kits. Not having swiftness (perma) in WvW makes me cry sometimes.

Maskaganda.2043:

@qqing asura get all the girls.

thanks all!

See you make me want to reroll my charr to asura, but replacing my 5 gear sets will make me cry

I always meant to ask, do you feel like there is a distinct advantage over being an asura over a larger character? Only thing I can think of is that the attack animations will be harder to read.

I would love to see to see this, or at least a way to transfer my 5 sets of gear on my charr engie to a different race if I was forced to reroll. This would be a good money making opportunity for them. Anet could easily charge $20 for race changes and get away with it.

Kodiack.2783:

This tier always makes for great forum drama. One team QQs, the other chest thumps, and the 3rd hides in a corner waiting to drop to T6.

Put away your forum persona and say it how it is. This tier has been for the past 2 months been nothing but a revolving door for the T4 loser to come down and feel good about themselves.

Maguuma, Dragonbrand, Ebay, CD and now add IoJ. At one point or another they couldn’t compete in T4 and dropped. Came down here and rofl-stomped on what should be T6 .

Change the server names all you want, but the same always happens.

One team QQs, the other chest thumps, and the 3rd hides in a corner waiting to drop to T6.

Do you really think Anvil Rock wants to come up to this kitten tier? It’s not going to be competitive and in no way fun. Like it or not we’re probably headed here in a week or two.

Whats the reward for winning this tier? A trip to T4 and a spanking like no other, CD flips your map at night and Maguuma steps on your neck in the evening.

Whats the reward for staying in this tier, getting spat on by the biggest loser of T4.

Enjoy your week.

-K

Lol so true

This weeks scores are gonna be all f’ed up already. It’s St Patricks Day weekend. I know ill be too drunk Sunday and too hungover Monday to even click my mouse.

Good, cause I never made an excuse. No one should make excuses. It’s a god kitten game. Did you play and have fun? All that matters. If the answer is no, time to do something else.

Anxiety.6143:

erigais.6805:

had some really good fights with bp and war on reset day. anyone else getting the feeling that bp isnt fielding as many people as they normally do?

We didn’t at all, BP had literally bottom barrell pickings for numbers this reset, everyone saying we’re making excuses but, honestly we had literally 1/3 of the people we had last reset

That is in excuse. It’s your job as a server to rally together for wvw and fight. Saying you couldn’t is an excuse. It’s the whole servers responsibility to participate or lose. The fact that WvW has no freaking point right now is a different story.

Lets be honest. You underestimated us communicating well with each other, so when Pk, Sekz, ECHO, FTF, GH and even the smaller guilds (dont know names sorry) all do their part… you cry. WAH we are being double teamed. Grow up. It’s World vs World vs World. Not WvW. There are three "W"s. Also, if you took two seconds to hit “B” you would have realized EBay owned as much DR land as BP.

Props to DR for putting up fights, being classy and not complaining about it. I actually liked fighting you guys weeks ago but always felt you did not have the numbers to compete. Nice seeing you again though, definitely see improvements from your server.

As for BP, some cheese for your whine ?

HUGZ FOR EVERYONE !!!!!

It could still work, you just lose a little burst damage.

Running a build like this could be a possibility. Mostly I use p/p with carrion gear but I tend to miss the grenade and bomb kit sometimes. I tinkered a little bit with the first build and made this :

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQJAqal0pyXHxSyF1LJyIFfWnFqA+BqQe95xblWQIA

The only thing I would lose out on is some bleeds proc’ed from sigil of earth and sharpshooter in the firearms tree. I might test it out tonight and see how it works. Could end up being to hybrid and suck, but you inspired me to give it a shot.

I want to replace glue bomb with a gap closer, Donkey Kong style. You jump into an explosive barrel and roll towards or away from your enemies, hitting it again to trigger a small explosive aoe knock-back similar to an elementalist’s dagger#5.

I always love your videos ^^. Did you make any other changes to your gear other than the runes or is it still mostly Carrion stats ?

I don’t understand how someone can do p/p and NOT get coated bullets. IMO it’s a necessity

You don’t HAVE to buy power gear. It’s not like they can’t come from dungeons or karma or anything -.-

What kind of stats are you looking at with p/v/t armor and berserkers trinkets? I’ve been interested in a versatile staff build myself but cant decide on stats such as that above or possibly all carrion with some toughness.

I heard of some people using grenades for AOE and rifle + static discharge for single target. I haven’t tried it out myself or actually seen its viability.

I’m having difficulty finding/making a decent axe build for pve/dungeons. Does anyone have any insight on what direction to go ?

Absolution.2851:

Just want to thank everyone so far for their contributions to this post! Let’s make this a great discussion

With regards to heavy investment towards Earth: I always see it as these two scenarios. One, investing points heavy into earth is a more self-centered build, meaning that it revolves more about personal upkeep rather than supporting the team as a whole. Two, investing points heavy into water is more group-centered, where the extra healing power will contribute rather noticeably towards Staff 3/5, D/D 2/5. I much prefer going 30 into water because I always felt the elementalist was more of a support class as a whole, rather than a DPS class like Berzerker warriors. Powerful Auras allows me to support the group.

Now my dilemma is: Is running signets worth it for extra Aura Upkeep? Or is it much better to run 10 earth for Elemental Shielding, with an additional 10 (for a total of 20) in arcana for boon duration/CDR? I’m leaning towards the latter.

I feel similar. I have used 20 in fire to trigger aura’s with signets and I hate the loss of all the utility. I have no ways to save my tooshie

I would LOVE this feature