Guild Wars 2

Bump. Give this build a try guys! Doesn’t get much better than this I’d say.

Well, I tested this out against guildies in HotM and in 1v1 situations it’s really solid. The only problems are full condition heavy specs and specs that can kite alot. But even those are not too much trouble to kill if you make good use of your immobilize and leaps+condi removal.

Well I’m using rabid in HotM andI can imagine it probably works the best with those stats aswell in WvW. Maybe add some Knight pieces here and there since it’s kinda hybrid. Aim for 1.2k condition damage with food buffs and focus on power after you hit that.

It should work if you copy and paste the link. Will update it with a diff builder later. I too have an ele but I’m only playing S/F because it’s quite rare to see and has potential! Quite weird to play but very interesting at the same time.

And yeah CD will always be inferior in PvE compared to Crit damage warrior. However this is mostly a PvP spec and is actually a very strong one aswell!

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fIUQRAse5cjgOpuxQCPMRCCMDscFjCjI+ThkoPQHA;TwAAzCuowyglALLWOskYt6Y0xeh5CA

I always like to try stuff out that people call not viable and yet make it work. So, I wanted to show you the build me and my guildy came up with.

Pros:
- You apply, weakness, bleed, cripple, confusion, burn and poison on regular base, so high condition damage.
- 4 interrupts, low cd
-> 4 possible ways of stacking 3 stacks of confusion for 6s.
- 3 blocks with med cd, you reflect projectiles, and apply a 1s burn for each hit! Shield stance has never been this awesome before!
- 3,2k armor, you can tank a ton of direct damage!
- Quite mobile with Savage leap.

Cons:
- Condition removal besides Signet of Stamina is very little.
- Healing doesn’t heal you that much.

This build is a very strong 1v1 fighter and when played right can be very effective. The real gem of this build are really the Guardian runes and the Distacting Strikes trait to apply burning and confusion to up your damage.

Oh, you could btw grab mobile strikes instead of the 25pt minor trait in the toughness tree but since you still do some decent direct damage and have high toughness the power increase is quite good.

Let me know what you guys think.

Just add a trait like “Cleansing Dodge” or whatever that removes chill and cripple when you dodge and give it an inner cd somewhere between 5-10s and it should be fine. – Remember warhorn cleanses all snares btw. Besides that warrior has the best mobility in game in the long run if you use GS, S/W. Don’t think the problem lies in mobility but more in healing/condition removal in general.

I’m not 100% sure but weapon swap sigils and on crit sigils are suposedly sharing cd’s

Having fun in EB atm.. dat skill lag.

It works great! Power wise Acid bomb does a ton of damage! Actually before Rifle 5 use Netshot first to ensure the full duration of Acid Bomb and after hitting Rifle 5 you can easily continue with rifle 4 and if you have throw mine and aim it right you can knock him back to you and hit Rifle 3 up-close.

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I gotta try this combo lol, sounds amazing on paper haha.

Edit: throw down Bo’B before Rifle 3 and drop smoke bomb you end up stealthing yourself too at the end!

FT1: Add range+5-10% damage or reduce channel time and keep the same total damage.
FT2: Keep it this way and add Weakness/Vulnerability or add a Blast finisher.
FT3: Remove prolonged burn and add 2 mightstacks for 5s.
FT4: Apply damage, burn and cripple when passing through.
FT5: Same as smokebomb.

Bomb kit 5+EG 4+Rifle 5 does quite some damage in a power build.

Pretty kitten good!^

However make it a gattling gun instead lol

Amos explained it way better than me^

Static discharge build is build that relies on the trait static discharge. (Adept trait in tools) which adds a ton of dmg to toolbelt skills.
CC build relies heavily on CC’s like knockbacks and such. (Like rifle, big ol bomb, mine etc..)
Tankcat is a build introduced by mischoof that relies on confusion and retaliation and a lot of blocking/invulnerability.
Healbombing is a referance to the grandmaster trait that bombs heal allies.
Hgh is a reference to a grandmaster trait called hgh which gives might upon elixer usage. Hopes this clears up some stuff.

- Acid bomb is now a stunbreaker
- Smoke screen now lasts 3s and pulses every second
- Rocket boots cures all non damaging conditions, leaps forward, knockbacks target and removes 2 boons.

So.. this would fix so much imo.

But but.. how am I supose to host a 2v2 tournament then? 16 slot is great since you can grab 8 teams instead of 5, which is an even number so you can match them up equally.

Quarktastic.1027:

Resouled.5614:

I’m playing ranger in tournaments and trap ranger and BM bunker ranger are just too strong atm.

All of a bunker ranger’s damage comes from the pet. Kill the pet and the ranger is mostly harmless. Kill the ranger’s second pet, and suddenly he’s petless for at least 40 seconds.

True, but goodluck killing my pet within 15 seconds while he has 500+ hp regen a sec. And I can heal him aswell. + If you can kill him you wasted valuable cooldowns you need to kill the ranger. BM bunker ranger can easily last 40 seconds with all the evades anyway.

I’m playing ranger in tournaments and trap ranger and BM bunker ranger are just too strong atm.

If you go back to the posts of November Anet stated to be working on Custom matches, which I meant by arena’s, now we’re 4 months ahead and still no custom matches announced? I mean in December they called feb. To be the PvP patch month and for such thing you’d expect something big in terms of PvP but so far what I mentioned in my first post doesn’t seem to me all that big and yet they included some whole new PvE content which imo is bigger than just a new PvP map and rating. Everything I said was based upon posts made by the devs. Anyway maybe I’m wrong and will the 26th patch have a great ammount of new PvP content but what they announced so far seems a tad lackluster to me. Don’t get me wrong, I love this game but I think they’re slacking on the PvP part of this game :P

Many times I’ve heard people say that feb. would be THE PvP patch (I believe Anet themselves stated that jan and feb would be for wvw and pvp?). Since november we have been told that custom arena’s are coming soon and so far, based upon the information released so far, the “PvP” patch will only include a new map, rating (which is now already somewhat implemented), and better rewards? Besides that it seems the PvE part of this patch is actually pretty huge with the new guild missions etc.. Can we atleast have a bit more info on upcoming PvP changes?

So THE PvP update is turning into a PvE update once again .

Guardians have never been crap..?

Hi guys, I’ve recently started playing mesmer in tournaments and got the basics down now. I’ve been trying to find some top mesmer gameplay so I can learn from it. I was hoping someone could link me some skilled mesmer videos?

Lol, thief/shatter mesmer will be great for orb carrier killing. And what’s up with ranger? All they can do is spam traps with a very obvious animation..

30 in I believe soulreaping (bottom trait line) gives you 3s of stability when in Deathshroud. If you press Deathshroud and Stomp at the same time you’ll perform a so called ‘shroudstomp’.

Shatter mes is easy mode in both sPvP, tPvP.

CC and burst are key.

Wolf + Drakehound.

AoE fear and immobilize and knockdown in chain. Dmg is decent.

Metashift.

Rangers are a counter to bunkers. Both ele and guardian and apparantly just now people figured out how to use the ranger.

Just saying, torch is better. Use offhand training

Dedalus.3065:

The funny thing is that the ele bunker build that everyone is complaining about has been up for what 3 months? It was even nerfed because of EA, and it’s been pretty stagnant since then.

Yeah, it’s funny. Same goes for traprangers.. they’ve been the same for 3 months, no buffs, no nerfs really and suddenly they’re OP. What’s next? Bunker engineers?

Alright, I’ll try it. Seems good.

The thing is you got a lot of condition damage but you don’t have a good way of applying them. That’s why I thought go for cleric because it would scale better in dmg with the sword. My trap ranger can easily kill both bunker guardians as eles aswell but I want to switch builds because of all the qq about traps.

I still don’t see why shaman is better? Wouldn’t cleric be alot better? Oh well, I’ll just try it out sometime but not 100% convinced yet. Really like traps though due AOE and preadvantage they can give.

Uhm, I’m by no means a pro ranger or w/e but how exactly are you going to do damage with that build? You got shaman but sword applies barely any conditions besides poison? OH dagger gives you 3 bleed stacks every 15seconds.. and a bit of poison and torch does a bit of burning. While relatively you have alot of condi dmg you barely apply them? And sword hits like a wet noodle w/o any power? Your pet does decent dmg but w/o the movement speed increase it’s not very reliable and you also miss put on the 30% more crit dmg which imo works well with both birds and jaguar. You’re more tanky, definitely, but your dmg must be really low? Wouldn’t soldiers/cleric be a better choice? Just wondering

The only problem with mesmers are blurred frenzy(high dmg, low cd, invul) and phase retreat(build in weaponset, low cd, stunbreaker) these skills should be toned down and get an increase in cd.

I’ve been doing some duelling lately and my wolf crits for 4k on glasscannons on the third hit of his chain I believe. I only have 10 in BM for shout cd . I do have 30 in skirmishing tho but I do run rabid jewelry..

Phoebe, as fellow DS I’ve to disagree. Everytime we fought a VS zerg in open field they wipe real fast.

20s casting time? No.. just no…

Just buff the crap out of them.

Chukree.1756:

Resouled.5614:

No, just no.

Warriors are fine. Only thing is buffing shake it off to 3 condi removed. Besides that they got tons of decent builds.

This is a pvp section.

Yeah, it is. Go cry in the warrior section if you want to.

No, just no.

Warriors are fine. Only thing is buffing shake it off to 3 condi removed. Besides that they got tons of decent builds.

OP, L2P.

Nothing wrong with my warrior. Balanced in PvP/WvW, OP in PvE.

Wow.. I’m amazed how there’s barely any flaming/trolling in here. Keep it up! Act like true gentlemen.

Pff, cc warr builds work fine in tournaments. Mace/Mace hammer with 0/0/30/30/10 soldier or clericjewelry works with 2/3 shouts just fine in tournaments. I win most 1v1’s and bring great utility in team fights.

Just double the attack rate, triple the HP and buff the damage and turrets are fine!

Charr racial skills complement the engineer very well.

Organized zergs use alot of warriors. Their AOE heals saved me a lot aswell as the cc, elite banner and general soaking up of damage.

SAtaarcoeny.8476:

One more day i cant wait.

ele’s are getting nerf rangers getting bug fix mesmers losing portal every other bug and exploit will be fixed. im so excited.

Nope.

Don’t get your hopes up.

I would switch out all berserker items except for ascended and switkittennights. This will make you alot more tanky. + use healing signet for regen and healing shouts. It’ll make you way more tanky while still doing decent damage. (3.2k armor or so and 23k hp)

Liewec.2896:

ele
attune eles taking down a notch (mostly just having every boon permanently and being borderline immune to conditions.)

thief
Mug damage decreased or stealth reworked to something like wow (once you’ve been spotted you must get out of combat to restealth)

guardian
spirit weapons made untargettable, if we cant damage them i dont want them clogging up my targetting.

mesmer
something doing about severe clone spam, this is PVP not PVC (the stuff gimpsuits are made from)

Engineer
buffs across the board! make things like Flamethrower as good as they should be.

Warrior
buffs across the board, make “Forceful Greatsword” into just “Forceful” stacking might with any weapon.

Ranger
fix the mountain of bugs.

Necro
for the love of grenth, PLEASE change the staff casting sounds!
dont make minions despawn in water (like on crapricorn)
make marks act like traps, staying until another of the same is placed.

Ele’s having every boon permanently? What a joke. The only boons we can have up permanently are might fury and swiftness. To get this we need to spent 30 trait points, use all boon dur. Runes and use sigil of battle. We do have high uptime on boons with that but we have to somehow compensate for the lowest base stats ingame. And immume to conditions? Please.. we can remove 3-5 conditions every 10 seconds or so, this requires a total of 60 trait points though. I think it becomes clear that eles are forced into the 0/0/0/30/30 builds because with low damage, low hp, low armor we have to have some compensation. If they nerf us due the qq they better buff our general survivability. Also I still think it’s mostly a L2P issue. People don’t learn the ele skills and don’t pay attention to their attunements. Switched water→fire? Time for cc/dps/conditions. Air or earth? Get that stability up. These are just examples. Just my 2 cents. This post will probably be ignored since I play an ele. However I’ve never had trouble beating them on my necro, engineer and guardian either.

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Edit: Cancelled due lag.