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Is there a good ice dps build for pve?

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Ice is my favorite element and ive been wondering about builds for ice, open world, dungeons, fractals and maybe even raids. Any experience with this? Thank you.

There’s not ice element. There’s water element aka water magic. Ice is just an extension of it. Back at GW1 we also had water magic but it wasn’t weak in terms of dealing damage. But back at GW1 you could build a dps water ele…you can’t do such beautiful thing here. Although the devs kept some cool capabilities of water magic like applying vulnerability and chill, they decided to transform the elementalist in a “jack-of-all-trades”, which ultimately failed.

sceptor/focus was mostly ice dps though. I wouldnt call it a simple extension to water even staff and daggers have some ice dps as well, thats like saying earth cant do good condi dps because it has defensive stuff.

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Is there a good ice dps build for pve?

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Ice is my favorite element and ive been wondering about builds for ice, open world, dungeons, fractals and maybe even raids. Any experience with this? Thank you.

Here is an update, thank you everyone for the replies, I never meant I was only going to use ice but I was curious if I could make it important in my build and rotations. I apologize if this wasn’t clear enough.

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Best racials for an ele?

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Would you guys say the male humans have more manly looking ele armors then sylvari? I think I like human and sylvari animations best, char seemed cool but a bit to big for some of the animations.

Best racials for an ele?

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In all honesty, all races (except norn) have good animations for ele. From there on it’s just what you want to pick (your personal taste). Sylvari have very good ones indeed (they just feel right, my favourite of them all), asura feel like they are dancing, and humans are just humans (in a very good way, they feel natural). Charr feel robust, but their robust moves feel appropriately powerful (they just feel like they are powerful) for a melee, staff fire autoattack (Fireball) is amazing too. I don’t like their Meteorite shower channel animations tho.

Thanks ill look into charr and sylvari, but arent charr against magic is there a story with some form of magic for them?

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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Personally I use a greatsword + longbow dragonhunter for PVE. It can get through most things fairly well, so I don’t feel like I’m somehow kitten by the weapon choices.

Unless you’re going for speedruns and raids, a condi revenant is fine, too. It might be a bit hard to comprehend, but most of the community is actually pretty bad at making builds. If you go with a full power condi rev, you’ll probably do better than most of the other players out there. The big limit to condi rev is that it requires the enemy to be moving to do maximum damage, so you’ll get a wide range of effectiveness depending on the enemy itself.

As far as necromancers go, there’s only one build that is really minion heavy. Their playstyle is more of a brawler or a brute, due to their high HP.

Full power condi rev? Sorry im not sure what you mean by that:) Yea torment doesnt seem all that great.

Best racials for an ele?

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Im thinking of rerolling an ele, ive heard something about sylvari actually having a good racial for an ele? Also which race has better looking male ele armor?

Thanks all.

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I have been following guardian forums for a while and not once seen a dev reply to these forums, how the hek do you know nothing will change?

No one is suggesting NOTHING will change but a dev posting in a profession forum is not an indication that they have only just started to pay attention to making adjustments to the class; they have been doing that all along.

So you didnt even read the dev post,

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We’ll look into this.

Could Mace 3 block more than just one attack before it triggers? With the current amount of things flying around it’s entirely useless as a defense mechanism. Or at least give it a duration (.75-1 sec block) with the ability to trigger a counter attack while it’s still casting

I agree that it could some love. We’ve already got it on our list for investigation.

This is a clear indication.

What? A dev saying they will look into something and they agree it could use some love and it’s on a list for investigation is a clear indication nothing will change … ALRIGHTY THEN!

I think maybe your just being to negative about it, why would someone say this and not do it?

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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I’d check metabattle first, after that maybe talk to someone who knows mesmer about creating a build for those weapons that has great synergy.

If you want, my twitch stream is up and will be up for a couple of hours. I can help you figure something out.

Actually that’s what my twitch channel is all about, helping new players.

https://www.twitch.tv/liberal_gamer

Thank you.

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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Your issue seems to be that you’re listening to other people rather than drawing your own conclusions. You can get by playing basically whatever you want in this game, the only place where it might cause issues is in raids and perhaps high-level fractals. So saying things like “rangers are only good at healing” or “mesmers have the worst DPS” is largely irrelevant. Rangers are fine at open world play in whatever DPS setup you want, Mesmers can do enough damage to kill things in solo play, and even in raid situations where Mesmers might have the lowest personal DPS, they’re still must-have classes due to the boons they output, a position many other classes wish they could be in.

So go try Mesmer out, go try Ranger out. Play a Necromancer and ignore the minion skills. You ignore your Spirit Weapon skills on your Guardian, right? You didn’t decide not to play it because of its pets. Try out Thief and see what it’s like to have absolute freedom in your rotations with no weapon skill cooldowns.

Don’t let other people dictate what you’d have fun with. Don’t fall into the “I have to play a Metabattle build” trap. Until you’re going on raids, you can play what you want and do just fine.

But thats my point, I will be doing endgame content when rotations do matter so it isnt just listening to other people, I already know you can do fine in open world pve. And the only reason why you ignore guardian spirit weapon skills is because you have to because they suck.

I dont want to waste all my effort on a class that changes in high level fracs or raids, maybe you do but it doesnt mean I should, you arent deciding anything for yourself if your shohorned into certain play styles to be viable.

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I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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Mesmers weakest DPS?!?

What drunk have you been listening to?

Mesmer: “When you absolutely, positively need it dead right kittening now.”

The only real issue with playing Mesmer is that it’s just as complicated as Staff Ele plus you have to be able to fight with a hectic, highly mobile style that is about the same as thief. In most builds you are constantly on the move, teleporting, using stealth, shattering clones and playing “Now you see me, now you don’t.”

I like to call it: “Agile, Mobile, Hostile.”

For starters look into the basic power/shatter mesmer. The WvW build on Metabattle for the Condi PU Roamer is also a great foundation to modify for PvE and I even like it in PvP.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Mesmer_-_PU_Condi_Roamer

Interesting are there any good dps builds for gs, and 1sword?

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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I meant what type of pve? Open world, dungeons/fractals, raids?

Based on what you have already said, my suggestion would be GS power Reaper with no minions. If you use one of the heavy armor outfits, it’ll be more of a death knight-ish theme.

All of pve, sorry that wasnt clear.

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I have been following guardian forums for a while and not once seen a dev reply to these forums, how the hek do you know nothing will change?

No one is suggesting NOTHING will change but a dev posting in a profession forum is not an indication that they have only just started to pay attention to making adjustments to the class; they have been doing that all along.

So you didnt even read the dev post,

Josh Davis

Associate Global Brand Manager

Nabbo.2845:

Josh Davis.6015:

We’ll look into this.

Could Mace 3 block more than just one attack before it triggers? With the current amount of things flying around it’s entirely useless as a defense mechanism. Or at least give it a duration (.75-1 sec block) with the ability to trigger a counter attack while it’s still casting

I agree that it could some love. We’ve already got it on our list for investigation.

This is a clear indication.

Elitism, a growing concern.

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3) The experienced in the encounter who are patient and willing to teach others. The true heroes.

Holy kitten I’m so sick of those whiny pushover that are always waiting around for someone to teach them like we all owe them something and if you know an encounter you HAVE to teach every kittening pug that stumbles in your group else you’re a bad person, an elitist and toxic. Then they do like raid of some weeks ago, “mimimi i don’t wanna drag you down i can leave”, instead of listening to my explanations and devoting themselves to become better at max speed. So so much easier to complain and say “I can’t do it”. Jesus christ, bring your problems someplace else, not in a raid group, we’re not your therapist.
OH, and it’s also amazing when you teach them, you carry them through a clear of both wings when they themselves have never cleared them, and then they hop. kitten you. I can’t waste my and everyone else’s time every single week to teach pugs that don’t even say thank youa fter leeching seimur is wrong achiev on their very 1st matthias kill on 2nd attempt of the day. Like, jump in, 1st timer (lied to the whole raid group), die in p3, get carried, get kill, jump out. Every week i get honest firsttimers or liars that weasel their way into the team or plain baddies, and every week i brace myself and explain the mechanics over and over and over and i never kick because I feel guilty as hell, only to have them exploit us like raid mules.
It’s gonna be a very. very long time before I again explain the mechanics for half an hour and get a sore throat for no reason other than trying to be “nice” so people don’t say i’m a “toxic elitist”. Read a kittenign guide. Or maybe I say I give up only cause I?m drunk. Who knows. It’s s o hard to kick people.

Maybe you need to accept that Pugging just ain’t for you. And I’ll be honest, Pugging ain’t easy, and it’s not for everybody, so, much like everyone else on this topic, I am going to suggest that you find a nice raid guild that shares your play style and raid with them.

He does have a point though, I personally believe in not rushing through content and such, but at the same time allot of pugs dont listen, even when you put things in the lfg describition but maybe your right pugs are not for him.

Game is randomly disconnecting.

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costed me two kittening rank matches…. two days straight….
can you please fix this issue?

The first thing to do is simply reset your internet by unplugging the internet then the router for 20 seconds, then plug in the net wait until it finishes then the router.

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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What type of content do you want to play? I agree that in open world, guardian’s rotation isn’t that interesting (that’s my main), but when I do small group content, it becomes a lot more interesting. I would usually swap around my build depending on situation, e.g. pure DPS, reflect-heavy, condition clears, etc. And a well timed aegis or reflect wall can make a huge difference to the team.

Also, you shouldn’t rule out any class until you try it out yourself. There’s a lot of intangibles that can’t be expressed in words. For me, I fell out of love with the ele (it was my 1st main) just because, no definite reason. But recently tried engi, and now it’s my go-to class if I want to have a fun and frantic evening… nothing to do with DPS or survivability or utility… it’s just “fun”.

I do have an 80 guardian, anywho I enjoy pve content mostly.

best leveling mesmer build?

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I started with dueling, and used great sword, and sword/sword or even torch. I was going domination as my second traits line and it was good so far.

Just an update I think the third one you want to go for leveling is illusions. These 3 basically increase your dps from you and illusions.

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Teach me, Warriors

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Are warriors really simple to play or is that just because of stereotype?

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I have been following guardian forums for a while and not once seen a dev reply to these forums, how the hek do you know nothing will change?

Sya the transgender character.

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There was already a big argument about that, with a mostly conclussive last post by Anet.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/TY-Anet-for-Transgender-NPC/first

IMO, people who gets offended by something like this choose to feel that. Instead, we should recognize games, as an art-form, needs to reflect and express society as it changes and advance, so this NPC is a very natural, interesting and inevitable development.

I dont know the last thing I want is a reflection of real life when I play games, I see your point but really I prefer fictional politics and religion or whatever, if there is going to be any.

I still cant find another class to enjoy.

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Besides elementalist right now, my issue with guard for example is limited in builds at the moment, and im having a hard time getting into many of the weapons, sceptor is to weak, staff isnt really for dps, mace and hammer are a bit to slow, 1hsword is ok but its fairly weak compared to mace and not all that useful in pve, torch and focus seem to be decent though. Greatsword and bow I enjoy though. I loved everything else about guardian.

Then I tried a revenant, but I dont want to be stuck with another glint/shiro build I really liked mace/axe and mallynx legend but the condi on revs is really weak according to the community.

So I think I want to wait and for the next balance patch and see what happens with these two classes.

I was trying to find a cool magic/melee class but I think those are the only two, so im considering some others instead, I hear warriors are good and all the weapons are viable? That sounds like there is allot of variety for me and I love being versatile if I can. I dont usually care for warriors in other mmorpgs, but they seem different in this one.

Mesmer seems ok but when it comes to any support like class I prefer a mix of personal dps and support and I hear mesmers have the weakest of dps.

Necros, I really dont have interest in this class because the pets are not my style like at all, and they dont seem all that visually appealing to me, I liked necros in other games though.

Rangers, I do have interest in the ranger, but they seem kind of messy to me or maybe just really versatile? Plus I hear all they are wanted for now is healing, I did try one and didnt like the longbow at all.

Thief, I think I would of really liked daredevil but I read somewhere rotations are really simple so I think ill pass on this one.

Engineer, I think someday ill want to play one but not right now, I wanted something more in the fantasy line at the moment.

If im getting misinformation please let me know, im opened to any advice if anyone wants to share it with me thanks for your patience with me lol:)

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PVE not competitive enough.

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Just an fyi, open world isnt always that easy, it depends on many factors, if they really wanted to they could upscale open world and make it more group encouraged without making it competitive.

Also if you want open world to be more challenging in low levels, its simple, dont use runes.

So can druids do decent condi dps?

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I like a mix of both, I was considering dragon hunter but I dont know ill probably get bored with that one build, seems ele may be my only choice right now.

Guardian hammer - Feedback

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I’ve read most suggestions for this thread and most of them are nonsense as they would leave the hammer as the most OP weapon in the whole game. The main problem with buffing damage or attack speed would be that in raids guardians would become the highest damage dealing class. If i recall correctly it was the third most dpsing class over time. Imagine with a higher symbol damage or less casting time between symbols it would be insane (I would love it though, yet not viable)
Now the only possible buff we could get would be a damage increase to #2, and casting time and/or reduced cooldown on #3,4,5. The dynamic of hammer skills are fine as they are the problem as was stated before was the duration/channeling/cooldown. That is what we have to aim to get Anet to modify.

On a side note though… hammer aa in spvp is not viable, do not try to make it happen because it will not happen. GW2 pvp is fast paced, the hammer swing is slow and since it’s attack speed won’t likely change we might as well forget it.

You didnt actually read suggestions thing considering people did not recommend simply buffing speed without toning down the dps? Are you saying warriors hammer is op since its really fast to then? You might as well. The hammer is boring and slow, and it does need help being faster because of pvp you can hardly bring that third strike down at times.

What profession suits me best?

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I dont mean to hijack your thread op but I have a question for these guys, do you think warrior would be for me? I like versatility, I love nearly all of my weapons being effective and not outmatched by others, I like switching builds and weapons kind of often. I also like a mix of ranged and melee depending on my mood, I enjoy being in groups. I also like flashy classes.

The Warrior’s definitely got the versatility, weapon effectiveness, and build/weapon swapping. I also like to switch builds up, and experiment w/ weapon combos… The difference for me between my warrior and guardian in this aspect is that with the guardian I just wasn’t satisfied for long with any build I made… but with the warrior it’s more that I love the build I’m using but every few weeks I have a ‘great idea’ for something new and get even more excited.

I’ll say that I don’t think it has the flashiness you seek. For me the warrior is about style over flare. Whirling around your enemy with a blur of axes, laying down a carpet of flames w/ Scorched Earth, sending out a shockwave with your hammer hitting in a cone the oncoming horde of mobs and crippling them. There’s this visceral feel of “that’s cool” w/o being flashy.

Last, I enjoy the ranged weapons, but they definitely feel slow. Effective, but slow. There’s a recent brief thread in the warrior sub-forums talking about the differences and usefulness of the bow and rifle.

Also, what about thiefs? Are they really that squishy ? As far as MB goes, the raid and fractal build are pretty much the same for DD. What about playing a thief in OW tho? I always fear if I*’d decide for the thief I’d play a really squishy profession that requires me to really master the class if I want to survive in (HoT) OW.

Mikei the Mighty on Youtube has a recent video up about a very, very simple raid build for the Daredevil/Thief. That might give you some of the information you’re seeking, though indirectly because it’s raid-focused instead of the broader HoT focused.

~EW

Well it doesnt have to be over the top flashy, what you described sounded cool. Thanks for the help.

So can druids do decent condi dps?

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Unfortunately druid is there for the group damage buffs as far as PvE goes. Grace of the land and frost spirit to be percise. Everything else is secondary as far as our ability to contribute in places like raids and high level fractals go. Even our healing.

If you go for condi dps you can probably get a raid group as long as they don’t have a druid/ranger already (Your only losing dps if you bring two). Or atleast you will have a better chance than a power variant. But if you want to do high end content as a dps build then you should probably pick something like condi necro or engi.

Were a support class atm. Our dps variants don’t bring anything that someone else can’t do much much better.

So are there no dps specs at all right now its all healing? Sb is still decent right?

What profession suits me best?

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I dont mean to hijack your thread op but I have a question for these guys, do you think warrior would be for me? I like versatility, I love nearly all of my weapons being effective and not outmatched by others, I like switching builds and weapons kind of often. I also like a mix of ranged and melee depending on my mood, I enjoy being in groups. I also like flashy classes.

I recently got my guardian to 80 but realized to many weapons feel to slow for me, its just not fun plus the build varity feels limited, im currently trying a revenant and they are fun but I hear allot of negative things about it like very boring rotations and stuff for pve, and you end up with very few builds? I dont know if its true but you do hear it quite a bit.

I am looking for a second class besides elementalist right now, anyways thanks for reading my question all!

I’m having fun experimenting with my warrior – going from shout build to phalanx to knockback (the idea of being a truck is fun, but I haven’t experimented with it much). I haven’t played as a revenant so I can’t give any advice, but since you like having a class that’s flashy and has effective weapons, I might recommend engineer. Flashy because you can explode turrets, bombs, and throw out grenades (ASPLOSIONS EVERYWHERE). You have kits which essentially serve as your secondary, tertiary, and quad-iary weapons which are as effective as you make them. I’m not sure how flexible engineers are as a class but they can hold their own in PvE and fractals.

You could always make your own thread asking for tips. I’m pretty sure you’ll get a response without needing to borrow someone’s thread <3

Well I did tried before and didnt get much from it.

So can druids do decent condi dps?

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Considering making a ranger, mostly a condi shortbow ranger for pve stuff but was wondering about the druid spec, is it only good for healing? Thank you.

PVE not competitive enough.

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Where to start. The game is just too easy. Everyone can get achievement points in PVE, no one is left behind. You’ve done a right step in PVP. Let’s analyse the achievements: need to win, need to win, need to win. Whereas PVE: participate, help, work together. See a problem? You are not incentivizing the player enough to go PVE. Offer a great reward (such as a legendary backpack), but cut the supply of them tenfold (by making it only that winners get the achievements and put in tiers of semi good rewards), by making so that only the Meta achievers can get it, while others get something that’s less of a value, such as resonating sliver, since everyone likes those. Economy is better off (less rewards flood the market), players are better off, you are better off as you can be sure that players will gate other players as much as possible from getting the final shiny. I like where you are going with current events, where players have to steal from other players to get achievement points, but I believe you could still kick it up a notch by making so that instead of priory fighting inquest, priory (player side) could fight consortium (player side) and the losing sides loses that much from their achievement pool. This way, people have incentive to try, because now, people are just gonna be like meh, I’ll do it and I’ll get something everyone will get, whereas if it’s exclusive, more people will join to get the exclusive shiny. You could also throw a match-maker to ensure fair-play between the two sides, no stacking, etc.

I dont think you know the point of a what an mmorpg is, this game has pve and pvp there is simply no reason to turn it into an entire competitive focus.

Pulsating Pestilence

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Hey wow this is great you guys are in here looking at rev, when is the balance update so I know when to know to level a revenant again?

What profession suits me best?

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I dont mean to hijack your thread op but I have a question for these guys, do you think warrior would be for me? I like versatility, I love nearly all of my weapons being effective and not outmatched by others, I like switching builds and weapons kind of often. I also like a mix of ranged and melee depending on my mood, I enjoy being in groups. I also like flashy classes.

I recently got my guardian to 80 but realized to many weapons feel to slow for me, its just not fun plus the build varity feels limited, im currently trying a revenant and they are fun but I hear allot of negative things about it like very boring rotations and stuff for pve, and you end up with very few builds? I dont know if its true but you do hear it quite a bit.

I am looking for a second class besides elementalist right now, anyways thanks for reading my question all!

So whats this new pvp thief build?

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I’m confused why would there be a new build now?

Revenant not on profession list...?

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Hmmm is the really that unfinished or do people dont like jack of all kind of trades classes? I’m new to rev but a friend of mine swears he can play multiple roles and even have a good mix of hybrid dps with condi going, I think he uses mall and glint.

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Short bow to more classes

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In pretty sure confirm short bow with axes work quite well cor a ranger right now, I’ve heard people recommend short bow for a revenant elite spec, I personally think it could make a fun Mesmer elite spec.

May decide to roll a warrior.

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Ive been trying to find another class other then just an elemantalist and so far nothing has impressed me much, ive been interested in revenant, guardian, and thief but my issues with those is the rev seems to be shohorned into one or two builds and I wanted to be a role switcher. The guardian is flashy and fun but the weapons are to slow for me, they just are except 1 hand, some are just lacking and I like to be able to use most if not all my weapons effectively. And finally the thief, which is kind of fun but at the same time I felt kind of shohorned into one or two weapon sets, and I hear is just an auto attack class.

But people have told me I should try the warrior, the thing is I have never liked warriors in mmorpgs, or even single player rpgs for that matter, I usually play magic or magic/melee hybrids of some kind. I also prefer a little flash but the main reason it was recommended is because they find good use out of all thier weapons?

What do you guys think?

Why do we have MASTERY?

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So you can finally use them when you already completed the maps like 10 times??!!!

Why do i need stuff like mushrooms, or so you can read there words when i already done HOT and completed the maps and events??

Sorry but the more i play HOT stuff the more i HATE this game!! what a terrible way to create grind stuff.

Lets be honest here, if there was no mastery people would complain there is no other sense of progression. I prefer progression because it will get stale without it.

Sp why is 1hsword bad now?

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They should rework sword to be a hybrid weapon.

We have enough power based weapons.
Mace=power based high dps
Hammer=power based high dps
Greatsword=power based high dps
Scepter and Longbow=powerbased and focused on dps
Staff=Lootstick focused on triggering lootable mobs, no other uses
sword=? what? It has no role/niche to fill.

Its niche is its speed, mobility, and ranged, considering you can make it faster with traits and no other weapons are just as fast I’d rather just see it buffed and reworked some, not completely changed.

The trait doesn’t make it faster, it just gives it lower cooldowns, but if the sword’s trait did, instead, make the auto-attack faster, I think would see much more use.

Essentially it does make it faster because of the lower cooldowns.

Revanant underwater low levels feedback

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I’ve reached level 10 and Eona (level 8 heart) in Caledon Forest has underwater related tasks. The heart is easy as can be however I observed that the classes starting stance and heal skill are not allowed underwater. This is the only class that I’m aware of that are denied any skill availability in slots they have unlocked at this level. This seems rather like an oversight or something.

Only shiro amd Mallynx are used underwater, so youll need to slot for those.

So are revenants fine in pve?

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Quick question is condi mall build really that bad? I really love the way mace and axe feel, I also like the style of mallyx, but I hear condi is really bad? What about a hybrid of condi and power?

With all these CDs and energy costs...

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Thats not true I have a few friends who have different builds then simply aa spamming and have no problems. This is for pve though I cannot speak for wvw or pvp in general.

Literally anything works in PVE, though.
Just because something works fine against mobs who don’t move much or can be easily cheesed by blinds doesn’t mean that things are fine in every other game mode.

I’m not even talking about open world and not everything works fine in pve, anyways your comment doesn’t even apply because I Specifically said pve. I never said anything about the other game modes except the fact that I cannot speak for those. The problem is that it was stated that there was only one good build for pve which was an aa playstyle.

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With all these CDs and energy costs...

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the forum for the class that was originally designed with 2 legend swaps and NO weapon swap for balance purposes now wants access to 3-4 legends with zero CD on top of weapon swapping?

only on the forums…

The notion of NOT being able to change weapon for a class that DOESN’T have any skill flexibility (heal + utilities + elite are prearranged) and on top of that MUST spent energy ALONG cooldowns is insane. And currently the class is utterly useless for roaming -any thief, mesmer, ranger or warrior can poke you to death while dancing in circles since Anet destroyed Phase Traversal-.

I’m not in favour to add more active legends, and I’m not about to ditch energy -due this two bassic mechanics are what make unique the class-, but the energy cost must be revamped OR the damage buffed OR the defensive options (condition cleansing, healing…) entirelly changed in order to make some viable builds.

At the begining of the expansion condi Rev, hammer and power Herald were all viable; currently power Rev is only viable in Conquest (not roaming, WvW raiding or duelling), and in PvE the only good build is “autoattack sword #1”.

Thats not true I have a few friends who have different builds then simply aa spamming and have no problems. This is for pve though I cannot speak for wvw or pvp in general.

I want to level a new char.

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Hmmmm, what classes do you usually like? Do you prefer Versatility or straight forward? Do you prefer simple or complex? Do you prefer magic? Do you like melee or ranged or both? The list goes on.

Melee Pistols

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We have a handful of ranged melee weapons.
I thought it would be pretty cool to have a class that utilizes all point blank pistol attacks. (point blank as in the pistol barrels will be in physical contact with the victim or a few inches away)

That would be awesome, but I prefer the idea of a shotgun like class as well, the class would be called a monster hunter, he shoild have some kind of lore magic that makes him able to use against the weaknesses of what he hunts.

Guild quit the game, HoT is stale?

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Agreed op. Guildwars 2 is not in a good state imo, i understand certain groups on the forums here like to pretend its not so which i think is fine for them to stick their heads in the sand and ignore everyone elses views, but it will bite them at a later date.

I also agree the solo (casual) aspect in GW2 is dead, as per the the second poster, small guilds casual and solo customers just have given up now since hot arrived, its not fun anymore and i think Arenanet need to make some over hauls for their future plans asap..

The small hardcore minorities need to understand casual customers make their game work, without them the game will not live on..

The hardcore is far from the minority, the game is more challenging, being casual has nothing to do with hot I’m sorry but it really doesn’t. Just because it isn’t instant gratification doesn’t make it hardcore. And I’m pretty sure the majority of players prefer pve over pvp, what you consider Hardcore players play both pvp and pve.

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Sp why is 1hsword bad now?

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They should rework sword to be a hybrid weapon.

We have enough power based weapons.
Mace=power based high dps
Hammer=power based high dps
Greatsword=power based high dps
Scepter and Longbow=powerbased and focused on dps
Staff=Lootstick focused on triggering lootable mobs, no other uses
sword=? what? It has no role/niche to fill.

Its niche is its speed, mobility, and ranged, considering you can make it faster with traits and no other weapons are just as fast I’d rather just see it buffed and reworked some, not completely changed.

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Not everyone wants to play piano with their keyboard. That’s what elementalists and engineers are there for.

Some people prefer more streamlined and relaxing mechanics, and having both weapon swap and legend swap is already enough.

So you get to decide what classes aren’t piano players? Why only two classes out of the many? That’s bit unfair there are plenty who wish to play piano as well beyond being just a ranged character.

It’s also unfair that if you want to play a traditional elemental mage in GW2, you have to be a piano player AND an attunement-dancer generalist. But that’s a flaw with this game.

It would be better for each profession to have at least one more mechanically-demanding elite spec (revs, guardians, warriors, etc) and at least one less mechanically-demanding elite spec (elementalists, for example), than force entire professions to be stuck at specific complexity levels.

Ok, I get that but my point was so little classes are piano players to begin with and you have options, there are simplier specs to play as, you don’t have to play an ele to its versatility.

And I have to disagree with elite specs, complex mechanics should remain in complex classes if you have a simple class with an complex elite people will complain allot.

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Hard hitting might be op with impossible odds but I agree for being a burst melee weapon more then a ranged weapons, but I don’t see why we can’t have obw or two hybrid of melee and ranged attacks from it

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Hard hitting might be op with impossible odds but I agree for being a bust melee weapon more then a ranged weapons, but I don’t see why we can’t have obw or two hybrid of melee and ranged attacks from it

Eye on Tyria: Interview with Shiro Tagachi

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Shiro: “That idiot Revenant over there is heading into that fractal gate with cleric armor and a staff. I think we might need to cut this interview short. Someone needs to stop him. What is he trying to do? Trap his team in there for 5 hours?”

Linked this quote to my friend cleric/staff revenant that he takes to fractals sometimes.
He got kinda mad, kek

Not everyone plays bserker not should they, if people don’t like it then don’t group with them.

Thinking of returning, some questions

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What is wrong with people in this forum? Are you offended ge uninstalled the game in the first place? If you are then something is seriously wrong. Who cares if he dis ir bit he asked questions about the game, if you don’t want to answer then don’t but don’t insult the tc over it and make it into something its not.

Merchandise Ideas - Open (even if the survey is closed)

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Weapon replicas anyone? I like to many skins to list, to bad we cant make them glow lol.