Guild Wars 2

Since you already have the Guardian at 80 I’d say start there. If you find it’s lacking for your style then start looking elsewhere. They’re in a good place for your needs iirc.

Definitely didn’t see that coming, but it’s awesome.

I’m pretty partial to Axe/Axe
+ GS as well (with a Drake and RaO). Not as good as LB for single target but great for multi-target.

Falados.7165:

So what build Axe/Mace or just GS/Sword+Warhorn ? (i don’t like switching tbh)

This a Ranger question or Warrior question?

Also do you not like switching weapon setups or not like using weapon swap? If its the latter you’re playing the wrong game.

Regarding the meta, the way conditions work it’s better to go power in any PvE setting. And that goes for all professions. As for PvP you can play conditions, but some professions can do it better than others. Namely those than can pile on a lot of bleed stacks really fast and those that can apply many different conditions. For WvW conditions lose effectiveness as the group gets larger. I think based on past discussions up to 15-20 players conditions can still work.

Don’t worry about that WoW raid mentality in GW2 unless you’re in a hardcore guild which it sounds like your friend won’t be partaking in.

Futuristic? I’d have to say Magitech.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magitech_Medium_Armor_Skin

Engineer?

/15char

• Try out each one.
• Melee is inevitable.
• To get an idea about the meta check out http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
• If you’re really a roleplayer at heart just make one of each and stick with the one who most fits your vision of the Scholar you want to play.

Vic.1402:

As a PvPer, i like to play characters with a big burst. Sustained damage can be healed, specially when you are playing against a lot of players and some of them will be focused healers. I like to deal damage only enough to be sure i can “instantly kill” that guy. When he reaches that % of HP, i use everything and he’s gone. For real.

Might be possible against totally glass builds, but in order to do so you have to be pretty glassy yourself. And once they’re gone “for real” you still have to stomp them which can be tricky depending on the circumstances.

For PvE event tagging nothing beats FT spam in my experience (although I haven’t farmed PvE events in a long time). It’s our answer to Guardian Staff. I know exactly what you mean about everything dying before you can get a hit off, watching all of the mobs die before your grenades hit the ground. Don’t worry about a DPS rotation so much if there’s a group doing the event and you’re having concerns about not getting kill credit. For regular mobs and even sometimes vets depending on the group they go down so fast It’s not worth doing much else besides FT. For longer fights and champs feel free to practice using your full kitten nal (and rotation).

As for PvE usage of Supply Crate I’d say to probably reserve it for stationary fights that are going to last long enough to benefit from the turrets. You’re going to have to use your judgement there.

Falados.7165:

Did all that I’m STILL dying FAST guess warrior isnt for me then i wasted so much time …

We need a little more to go one. Title says “PvE/WvW” but which is it? Having your spec and specific instances you’re dying to conditions where maybe you feel you shouldn’t be would go a long way with anyone being able to help you.

You can layout your build using this tool. http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/

Without knowing anything about how you’re currently managing conditions you have 4 basic ways to deal with them. This goes for all professions in principle although access to each of these methods varies across the profession spectrum.

1) First and foremost is avoiding the attack that applies the conditions with dodge, evade, block, blind, not standing in red circles, etc.
2) Reduce their duration through a combination of Runes (Hoelbrak/Melandru), Traits (Dogged March) and Food (Lemongrass Poultry Soup/Poultry Leek Soup/Saffron Bread).
3) Remove them using Cleansing Ire (requires the Burst to hit), Brawler’s Recovery, Signet of Stamina, Shake it Off!, Shrug it Off, Sigil of Cleansing/Purity/Generosity, Runes of the Trooper (requires Shouts), etc.
4) Become immune to conditions using Berserker Stance (does not remove conditions already on you).

I may have left out a few, but you get the picture.

P.S. If you’re dying “FAST” as a Warrior you’re probably not going to have a lot better luck on any of the other professions.

I tried to help when the OP first came to the forums looking for advice, but the more of these posts I read the more I think he’s just playing the wrong game.

It’s getting a little old.

Common bug with many movement (especially leap) abilities. Rocket Boots on Engi is the worst. Every time you hit it you need to cross your fingers you’re even going to move forward let along be able to move after you’ve landed.

AsongBIPS.4063:

So it’s time for a new alt and I chose warrior over the guardian because of their adrenaline concept and utilization of weapons.

But I see all this hate for the Warriors and apparent nerfs they received. I wanna play a zerker build in PvE (dungeons and fractals) and play whatever’s viable in PvP.

Should I roll or stick to my pew pew ranger??

Sounds like you want to play a Warrior to me.

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Buried in page 5. If only the search worked.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/ranger/Can-Someone-Teach-me-how-to-Sword/

Don’t quit GW2 because you ended up the wrong guild and an (likely misguided and ineffectual) elitist tried to micromanage your (and others) game. Just leave and find a guild that’s more befitting how YOU want to play the game.

From the wiki “effects which grant additional endurance regeneration do not stack beyond double the normal rate” if what you were concerned about stacking was Invigorating Speed and Adrenal Implants. It’s the same as Swiftness, Super Speed, and movement speed passives. They don’t stack.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Endurance

coglin.1867:

The OP asked about leveling with the pistol, not about elitist group play. The pistol is just fine.

/This

Dextar.1682:

I know this is the warrior forums and might be a bit biased but should I stick it out with my warrior or learn my ele?

To be honest learn and play both provided you enjoy them. This way if you do get burned out on one or just want a change of pace you can just switch toons.

While that may be fine and dandy for WvW roaming, for leveling (assumed open world PvE) Forceful Greatsword may be more beneficial with the reduction on GS cooldows adding additional mobility.

Fast Hands and Forceful Greatsword come to mind.

Shield is used for its hard CC and Block in PvP/WvW. Neither Shield skill is useful in PvE. Being more tanky won’t necessarily help your group, but knowing how to avoid taking damage altogether via dodging and positioning will help.

Shout builds generally use at least 2 Shouts (FGJ & SIO), Trooper Runes and the traits Lung Capacity, Vigorous Shouts, and (sometimes) Inspiring Shouts. Also Warhorn with Quick Breathing is common among Shout builds.

Stance builds really aren’t a set of builds like shout builds since many builds that use stances don’t invest in them at all.

Assuming you’re using gw2skills don’t look at pet damage/healing values or condition/boon durations. I’m pretty sure the calc scales them off player stats, which is incorrect. Pets have always had their own stats including condi/boon durations independent of the player.

That being said according to the wiki for whatever reason the heal from Invigorating Bond DOES scale off player’s Healing Power.

Drakes are also pretty solid overall as well. Great for camps/towers (especially with RaO) as they’re pretty tanky, cleave, and have an AE F2.

If you’re running Empathic Bond, Spiders and Drakes are a good choice for the high HP (alongside good damage/utility).

For roaming Krytan Drakehound or Jungle Spider are often chosen alongside Wolf for their Immobilize F2.

I see a lot of LB rangers running Devourers, but haven’t played with them myself.

Been a long time since I played Morrowind (and never got into Oblivion), but based on the description here http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Witchhunter#Witchhunter I might be inclined to go with a PU Mesmer if you remove the bow requirement and go with the baser requirements of “martial, magical, and stealthy”.

If you must have a bow, then I’d probably go with Thief although focusing on the bow there would be less than ideal. I wouldn’t necessarily go Elementalist either because the Icebow is more of a support weapon.

1) Map completion is always good, and doing the world events can be profitable.
2) If you craft while leveling or at least had been collecting materials it’s not that big of a pain in the kitten as long as you do it efficiently. It can be a little expensive if you hadn’t been or don’t plan on gathering.
3) Nothing wrong with taking a Ranger into a dungeon. Just read up on how to build/play your Ranger during a dungeon run because chances are it’s not how you played while leveling.
4) With exception of real high level/competitive stuff I would actually recommend trying to learn on your own. Sure read guides and ask specific questions, but figuring it out on your own will give you a better understanding of how a specific mechanic, event, or whatever works.
5) Why not? PvP doesn’t cost you anything, and WvW can be a ton of fun. What’s keeping you from PvP/WvW if you don’t mind my asking.
6) Add me and shoot me a group invite or /w in game and I can try and help you out although these days I play almost exclusively WvW.

You can succeed at those objectives with any profession provided you build for it.

GS + Axe/Mace is preferred for dungeons, but for open world PvE it really doesn’t matter.

If you must… As mentioned in another thread GS + Axe/Wh before you have access to Master level traits to maximize mobility and damage switching to GS + Sw/Wh once you can pick up Forceful GS.

stvibes.5930:

Thank you all for the advice. This game is already better then wow lol. No one ever helps out. Gonna try a few professions. Gonna play an just have fun. Hope you all have a great day

I wish all “which profession should I play” threads worked out like this.

Every class/prof can be played effectively (at least in part) in melee/close range. So don’t feel restricted to a profession that in your WoW brain should be pigeonholed into playing melee.

Combat in GW2 is all about active defense. Learn to use dodges, blocks, evades and activated defensive abilities wisely. You can’t just stand there like in WoW and facetank everything because you’ve stacked up on defensive traits.

Traits are unlocked at 30, and one more every 6 levels thereafter (not counting 80 which is a 2 level gap).

Brother Grimm.5176:

Please don’t learn the combat mechanics of this game on a Ranger.

/This

But if you must please hold off on Bearbow.

Not up on my Dagger skins, but I’ve been a fan of the Ruinmaker lately.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/a/ab/Ruinmaker.jpg

Not necessarily. You may run into other players getting to the event, but you’re not guaranteed to have to be fighting other players while doing the event.

Likely this one.
http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Warrior_-_Hybrid_Sword_Warrior

Learn to love the hobosack. It’s not going anywhere. The only build I’m aware of that uses no kits is the full turret PvP build, but that’s the farthest thing from open world/dungeon viable. There’s nothing inherently broken about either profession, although each has a few things that need to be tweaked.

To give you an idea of what the cool kids are playing…
http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

Which game mode are you concerned with? Open world PvE, dungeons, PvP or WvW?

I’m not that familiar with Elementalist’s animations, but you didn’t happen to eat any Omnomberry Ghost did you?

The stun is just long enough to land an Eviscerate/Final Thrust, but you need to be quick about it. You can’t use Shield Bash and then sit there twiddling your thumbs for (even a fraction of) a second before hitting your next ability.

If Shield Bash had 600 range and a 2 sec stun the CD would be twice as long and we’d be right back here with you complaining about how Shield is underwhelming.

If you look at the CDs for other Shield abilities for other profs you’ll see they’re pretty level. We have the same CD length as the Guardian and a shorter CD length than Engies since they have double activating abilities. If you’re comparing Shields to off-hand weapons it’s apples and oranges my friend.

Disagree.

Aside from what Thad pointed out I think you probably just need to try and erase preconceived notions you appear to have about Warriors including their “role”, how combat works, the way their various weapon sets should behave, etc. Once you’ve done that I think you’ll find the Warrior and the game as a whole a lot more enjoyable.

Really appreciate this as someone whose been playing Sw/Sh + LB recently. I really need to save up for Hoelbrak though. Been playing with Melandru from when I was playing GS/Hammer and it could use some more Might.

I was under the impression that that was the Lord/Boss.

Rhaegar.5120:

what do you think about something like that?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fgw2skills.net%2Feditor%2F%3FfJAQJARSjMd0FaVImhwJagfgC9t3C7gxAYAUmG5OA-TVCFABIcIAA4BAclSQkU%2B9o6PCcBASTXQL7PkwRAIAACwNvZ28mBG6QH6QH6Q7m38m38m3sMAMLA-w

That Axe/Shield looks an awful lot like a Hammer to me.

I would switch out RaO and Entangle as needed. General roaming I’d probably go with Entangle for full melee, but River Drake + RaO in a tower/camp is really nice.

Lazze.9870:

anduriell.6280:

Also trying to make the ranger pure melee is like trying to make the guardian pure ranged. It will not work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPS21-PMbh0

L2P.

And that’s with Sword #1 on autocast.

Stick with it. After a while everything aside from Elementalist will likely feel a little dull. Leveling may be boring but it’s worth it.

anduriell.6280:

this is mine, works well in WvW
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fNAQNAT8fjEq0waBL+rQ1ag9gadAUANQze4aduFFxB/q9A-TlCBABQt/wjKB5RVjtUeYoOgpUihjaJA8AAURzwDmYCAgAwRH6ODpAAbZE-w

LB/Sw+Torch isn’t exactly melee GS/Sw+Axe.

For 1v1 Jungle Spider/Wolf. For everything else Drake/Wolf. Or Drake/Jungle Spider if you feel you don’t want/need to use Wolf.

@OP: Care to link your build? When I play full melee with GS/Sw+Axe I’ll go 0/4/6/4/0.

Edited to avoid confusion of whose build I was asking for.

I could be wrong but I thought pet interrupts didn’t trigger MoC.