Guild Wars 2

It seems like your problem is the Thief, not GW2 itself.
I ensure you other classes have many possible setups, it’s just that Thief is bad for PvE period.

I have 80 Warrior 80 Guardian and trying to level Thief but I just can’t get myself to do it.
Too squishy (d/d) or too boring (blindspam).

Because Warriors are great in PvE, just like Mesmers are great in PvP.

I would like, one day, to see all classes being great at both. One can dream no?

I don’t believe you’ve seen more than 20-30% of all the dynamic chains in the game OP.

I have never, ever been killed by a Thief on my Warrior and Guardian.
Maybe the day will come, but until the class is based on gibbing and I’m a player that equips anti-gib tools on any character, I will continue to laugh at gib Thieves. No offense.

The more you want money, the less you think you’re getting.
Seriously.

Lay back with your goals and think about it.
Play and enjoy, money is meant to flow in slowly in GW2, it is very controlled that you don’t get a ton of money in a little time span.

Melee is great, it’s simply 8000% harder than spamming autotargeted projectiles from 1200 range.
My guild runs a pure melee wvw team and we eat ranged rabbits, but it actually requires a ton more skill and group cohesion than spamming ranged stuff like 99% of wvw people do.

Offhand Axe is currently a complete joke, hope to see it buffed at some point.

I never, ever met a Sword warrior in GW2. Seriously.

It hits for 1k-1k-2k on autos for me.
Stacks bleeds that can be used to waste enemy’s condition removal.
Adren skill can be used to switch into HB, or to waste a stunbreaker.
Root and leap are awesome.

Yet I see Warriors only using sword for leap on secondary set.

I got so many kills with sword, I wonder why I see no one using them as their main.

Dodging 100b is possibly the easiest thing to learn from all PvP in GW2, and one of the first requirements in order to be a PvPer.
It’s pretty much at the level of dodging Ettin power blow in Queensdale.

Warrior is sadly the easiest class to counter because our moves are predictable and slow, but of course until you fight a bit of Warriors you are prone to be killed.

Generally speaking though, stunbreaker/stability/condition removal -> Dead Warrior.

I was completely stunned by how incredible the different boxes are (and their animation too).
I feel whoever made these unbelievably awesome things deserves an appreciation thread, he did an outstanding job.

Not sure if anyone else stopped to look at them, in which case I uploaded a little compilation below:

Hard Mode needs to be done.

If they make the game too easy, we complain.
If they make the game too hard, baddies/casuals ragequit.
If they make the game too balanced, both will complain.

Simply split and make both happy Anet.

I have the opposite issue, bumping into people everywhere from Harathi to CS.

Orr is the worst, explanatory pic below

While the point you make is good and I too believe Anet will have to deal with this, you went with extreme exaggerations and sensationalism so this is a lot less likely to get to Anet properly.

On another note I want to offer a piece of advice to thread makers.
I’m not sure you guys realize this but Anet hears “if you don’t do this your game will die” on a daily basis, on any subject.
I realize you believe tossing in some far-fetched statements will help for it to be taken seriously, but realistically it actually decreases the credibility of your argument.
Try bringing more evidence (videos for instance), system specs, etc, I’m very positive it will help the cause a lot more than doomsaying.

Combustive+pin+explosive+sofury+volley+frenzy+root+killshot.

or

Balanced stance+Earthshaker+Backbreaker+Hammershock+frenzy+bull+HB+WA.

or

Bladetrail+Rush+WA+frenzybullHB+eviscerate.

Kill before they kill. EP+DP will give you the time.
If the fight goes longer, you’re dead.
They are -that- OP.

I got this.

Wurriur needz nurf

Definitely.

PvE: 33 different dungeon quests, 12+ raid bosses, DEs, craft, etc
WvW: a million of players alone are prolly playing just for this
sPvP: with the new content update I’d say we’re getting there

Still a bit mad that not all blizzboys yet moved back to wow, I still see some around here making wow comparisons (comparing audi a3 with ’94 ford escort yay) and demanding wow features.
Hopefully the next month will clear them out.

This will be locked because it’s the wrong way to report.
Click their name, report, botting.

To be completely honest, I’m totally disappointed in 95% of the skins.
I expected cool skins and I got child toys… Armors are pretty weird too.

But tastes are tastes.

I agree that GW2 lacks greatly in regards of PvE in difficulty, but I’m pretty sure they will come up with Hard Modes.

There is a lot of people out there who will sadly rage quit over any complicated difficulty, and they are paying customers too.
That’s why having Normal and Hard mode is good rather than making changes to the difficulty just to cater to one part of the audience, while disappointing the other part.

They just need to bring back good ol’ HM.

Anet is not against roles, but against obsolete taunt tanking and dedicated healing, which are both unviable in GW2.

I haven’t seen any “massive nerf” so far.
They are actually all minor tweaks, I’m fine with how Anet balances.

This is the usual sensationalist thread.
There are a lot of people who go support, but this game is simply not meant to be played as a “support only” character (has been stated several times), you need to both DPS, survive and support.

DPS is support in many ways: combo fields, killing things that will otherwise kill the team, control, etc.

Just don’t expect to see “full support X class LFG” frequently, as that is an inefficient way of playing GW2.

I was ressed by a NPC too. Very very awesome.
It makes you feel like NPCs are aware and alive rather than dull things that are completely unaware and careless of everything.

Thumbs up to Anet for this.

The lieutenant in AC.
Mass pull+Mass oneshot ftw.

It never gets me due to Balanced Stance / Dolyak / Endure pain / Defy Pain, but I love seeing others getting sucked in and going downed.
I can’t help but explode in laughter :p

Hi, I main a Warrior using the GS for the most part.

Currently HB is great in PvE and very impairing/useless in any PvP setup (unless you build your whole character around it).
Here is how I’d make it useful in all settings.

HB becomes faster (4hits+final blow perhaps?) and allow movement but halved damage.

Arcing Slice (which currently no one uses) would ramp up in damage a bit to make it worth using, and Fury effect would also apply to nearby allies; this way we also improve on Warrior lack of support.

All I would love for my HB is it to deal half damage (4 hits + final) but no lock in place.
Pretty much like Guardian’s Whirl skill, normal damage but mobile and fast.
Of course CD should also be reduced to 4s (3s traited).

The damage loss could be given into Arcing Slice, and make the effect (fury) also apply to nearby allies.

I agree, dungeons have gotten fairly easier, especially AC.

Hope to see Hard Mode making a comeback at some point.

I’m wondering how much damage you can pull off with zerker armor and jewelry.
So far I’ve been playing support on my Guard but my best burst is 3k from WW (a joke compared to other classes).
Does it get to at least 6-8k with zerker + full defense?
On a zerker setup with toughness on wep I would have around 250% crit dmg and 50% crit chance.

Stefan just ignore the babies/trolls and answer my post.
It’s inevitable to get some trash comments in every thread, just ignore them.

Pradton.8576:

So Anet does the same blunder every other game with a stealth class does? They are “squishy” but can basically kill you in one or two hits. Why oh why did they not learn from the past?

They cannot kill you in a few hits if you stack armor.
Read my post above.

Here is how to not die

There is a difference of about 50% damage reduction between 2400 armor and 3000 armor.
Basically having 2400 armor means you’re giving your opponent a 50% damage buff.
You can also get away with 2800 armor (40% damage reduction compared to 2400 armor).

Yes, it is normal that a character can gib you if you are giving them such a damage buff by not stacking Armor.

stefan could you please do some tests against this same Risen Corrupter with your armor?
I need numbers for 3.2k armor, 3.4k armor and 3.5k armor.

I already calculated that between 2400 and 2700 armor there is a 20% damage reduction difference, but only 10% between 2700 and 3000.
DRs almost halve the damage reduction. I need to know how bad DR is with further armor stacking.

PS: You can find the mob in Orr, just outside the northern outpost.

For me, complete overhauls of professions are the biggest turn-offs that could ever happen.
Tweaking is fine, changing how a profession behaves completely mid-game is not.

My class is something personal.
If you want to tweak damage, effects, etc, I’m fine.
If you want to move skills on my skillbar, remove skills, remove traits, etc, I’m not fine.

There’s one thing to consider.

As much as Anet made all classes able to spec in all roles, a team with a DPS Guardian and a support Warrior is worse than a team with a support Guardian and a DPS Warrior.
Simply because as a matter of fact Guardian can make the team impervious to conditions while also healing/protecting them much better than a Warrior can – similarly, Warrior deals ten times the DPS of a DPS Guardian.

Sure, there is no need to get the best out of your class.
You can crawl to the end of any dungeon with a comic team made of a GS Ranger, a ranged Guardian, a tank Ele, a Wammo and a MM necro.
But still, most teams will want to avoid the most deaths and clear the dungeons as efficiently as possible, and therefore will expect each class to maximize on its potential.

Bull’s charge and Rush are buggy, yes.
Kind of annoying as they are core skills.

I can’t seem to ever get bored in GW2.

Here is what I do:
- tag along with random people or friends in Orr, doing all events and harvesting
- hop into WvW for some adrenalinic sieging and mass pvp
- test new builds and playstyles
- go into previous zones to help my friends with something, or partecipate some of the awesome events (love Harathi)
- do raid bosses as they spawn (there’s a dozen of them)
- try new dyes combinations and look for new cool-looking gear
- raise my crafts a bit and sell/buy stuff for it
- lose myself into jumping puzzles (dying a lot, lol)
- hope into some dungeon team (FYI there’s 8×4= 32 different paths possible)
- do some tournaments with my guild
- throw my rares in the forge and get that lucky exotic
- do chest runs with magic find to gather some more cash-worthy stuff

I rarely have the time to do all this every day (things like dungeons and wvw just take one day alone), I just do a mix of these and I’m always doing something different while massing more gold for all my new gear sets.

What I feel I’m missing:
1) UW / FoW. I really loved the theme and difficulty of these.
2) Hunting named bosses for their named weapon.

That’s all I think.

I’m full exotics on 2 characters and never grinded anything or played the market or bought gems.
I just played the game normally and went through its whole content (I actually skipped most crafting).

This is the ultimate proof to me there is no grind unless you want it.

All exotics have the same stats.

I would go with Knight’s armor and Zerk Jewels so you get a nice balance of tankiness and damage.

What I love about rifle is 1500 range on Killshot and the ability to hit all lines up foes.
In WvW I aim it to hit 4-5 people in a line and I halve their health.

In any serious PvP though, people will dodge or even strafe Killshot, and dodge most of your Volley.
Other skills suck so you’re going to be eaten against any half-decent player.

CLING CLANG CLONG CHIN

Warriors go around with a lot of keys in their pockets.

I’m not sure the Guardian is better.
In the end you get 11s invul from EP/DP/Sblock, so against a spike you’re better off as a Warrior.
Against continuous damage Guardian comes off on top due to prot/regen.
Also, Guardian gets no cripples whatsoever.
People will be able to get away from you permanently before you’re able to kill them.

If anything, I’d place my bet on a TOU-stacking Thief with stealth build.

I still like banner for Dungeons, but it’s the only situation I really use the banner.

Thumbs up for SoR.

Melee is good, you just need proper support from the team.
In my guild we run a melee team for wvw and it works wonders, but you need Guardiand and Mesmers to use their reflection walls in order to melee properly, Guardian’s gandalf and Warrior CC also helps preventing people from kiting.

Most people is still going 100% ranged in WvW and that’s sad because my guild is rolling down those teams very easily (this is why Seafarer is always on top, think about it enemies…).

I use full zerker setup with Knight’s weapon and 30def, running around with 2800 armor, 3k pow, 50% crit, and 210% crit dmg.

I prefer Hammer+Axe/Warhorn with leg specialist than Sword/Shield tho.
Perma-swiftness + immobicripple + vigor allow me to keep more steady pressure along with negating more damage (another weakness from horn).
I use your same utilities (on that note, Signet of Fury ftw).

PS: You can get up to 36% crit dmg from just jewels.
I think it’s fair to lose 300 armor for 36% crit dmg, at least you bring crit dmg up to 200%.
That means your 1.5k crits are turning into 2k ones, 2k ones turn into 3k ones etc.

Here is a reality check on Warriors.

PvE
Thieves greatly outDPS a Warrior @ single target damage.
War can deal 25k crits on HB every 9.6s, while Thieves can deal 10k PW every second & 10k backstabs.
Also, to deal this damage a Warrior needs to go full glass cannon, else 100B will hit for half that much.
Eles greatly outDPS Warrior @ AoE damage & condition damage.

PvP
Greatsword and Rifle (which are the one dealing high burst) are completely unviable.
HB is easily dodged/trinketed, Killshot will just be strafed.
Infact Warriors in sPvP use Mace/Hammer/Axe/Sword.
Bunker = Guard/Engi > Warrior
Roamer = Ranger/Ele/Thief > Warrior
Currently Warriors are sub-par in pvp, infact they have very low representation: PvP is being dominated by Mesmers, Thieves and Guardians.

And Warrior was nerfed a lot.
Eviscerate was nerfed down terribly, Endure Pain was almost halved in duration.

Warrior is basically a jack of all trades master of none.
Can do well in most things but will be outclassed in every single sector.

The only thing Warrior has easy compared to other classes is generic PvE.

faytte.1057:

While I think the warrior numbers are shopped, the fact that one of the most survivable classes also wins on burst vs everyone but thieves, out supports most classes and is the best ranged damage dealer with head shot is RIDICULOUS.

Warrior bursts need 3 full second to be setup.
You have a long time to counter them with anything you like.

You know, I would be fine if they halved damage but also cast time.

Because let’s face it, people cry at big numbers but avoid talking how impossible it is to land said numbers on anything with half a brain.

If Warriors were OP they would be dominating sPvP, yet Thieves/Mesmers/Guardians are.
Ask yourself why.

Devildoc.6721:

Just thought I’d cross link this image from the warrior thread.

https://dviw3bl0enbyw.cloudfront.net/uploads/forum_attachment/file/11247/lol_warriors.jpg

150k.

No other class can do that in a single ability with a less than 10s cooldown.

The “1” at the end of the number is shoop’d.

Not sure I get this.
If they move the symbol to skill 4 then people won’t leap into retaliation because they are too lazy? :p

I’m happy I went back to my Warrior.
Guardian has too many meh traits, traits that need merging, no viable ranged weaponry… I really WANTED to love it, but I see them concentrating only on the sPvP so I’m sticking to Warrior until this class gets finished.
I can’t be bothered to re-learn my class at every patch like I did in WoW with the Paladin, nor be continuously twisted between roles (nerf dmg buff defense, nerf defense buff dmg, nerf ret, buff ret, nerf ret again)…

Caliber.2987:

What would you change? ArenaNet has already stated that warriors are where they want them to be. I haven’t had a lot of issues.

The bugs.

Rush is bugged, they need to realize a channeled sprint&hit skill simply does not work, just make it into a 600 range leap like Leap of Faith.
Many bugs with rifle in relation to targeting (skills go on cooldown but are not used).
Combustive Shot not landing and going on CD even when immobile, or it landing in the wrong place.
Fast hands well-known bug.
Arcing slice still won’t uppercut (while rush does), still bugged tooltip when lvl 1-2-3 adrenaline (lvl 0 adrenaline shows correct tooltip).
Endure pain incorrect tooltip.

I’m fine with Warrior being final from a balance perspective, but it still needs a few bugs fixed.

Caliga Meshima.4768:

How is dual axes bad? Axes have the strongest auto attack of all the warrior weapon sets. the adrenaline gain with that weapon set is higher than all the others, and eviscerate on a full adrenaline bar is just a devastating spike.

That is true for main hand axe.
Axe off-hand is a joke. It’s been nerfed down to useless.

There is a DE that keeps spawning waves of mobs and players farm them but the event never ends.
I’ve gone away from there because that might be considered exploiting but still wanted to make sure it was posted.

If you need specifics (Anet, not players) shoot me a PM or mail.
I filed a /bug but it will probably be too late when you see it.