Guild Wars 2

I have no idea what happened to me: was defending a point when engi appeared from stealth?? turned me into Moa bird?? and 2 seconds later i was downed. Never saw such a hugh burst before.
This has happened three times in a row on the same point. He always appeared from nowhere (stealth) and turned me in to Moa. I think he was p/p + flamethrower. Not 100% sure of that. i didn’t have time to check lol.
Now my question is: how can a engi starts the fight from stealth (he’s not a stealther wtf) and how can he turn me into a moa like every 20 – 30 seconds???
I’m so confused … I just can’t react that fast. never had much troubles with engineers before …

Is Power d/d ele viable? I have in mind something more oriented on Air attunement for dmg rather than Fire. I would like to ignore Fire as much as i can.
This thread is about d/d only, Scepters go away :P

Why Dragonhunter? If you want to play more effective LB class try condi or celestial Warior, use trait which adds burning to your LB autoattack: dmg is higher, survivability is better. Autoatack dmg is just sick. And you can play it both way: condi or Power or mixture of both.
Oh and you don’t need to manage your stupid pets any more

I can’t find any “serious” PvP or WvW build which includes both: GS and Staff. Because Staff is a hybrid weapon and it should somehow work with GS, right? Now we are just limited to Staff + Scepter/x and GS + Sw/x.
Edit: what about Staff + Sw/X?

How much gold do you spend to level profession from 1 – 500 with ascended weapon included? I just can’t decide if it is worth to level a profession (so boring) and make myself a first ascended weapon just to increase stats on Exotic weapon by maybe 5%?
Oh, i keep some materials on my bank

Edit: is ascended weapon account bind or soulbound?

Do you think i should go more power or condi oriented build to increase damage of staff?

So is there any profession which can go full condition build and do equal dmg as Power builds? Any? Dungeons or PvP? If answer is no, why do we have conditions in this game than? Just for fun?
Condition Mesmer or engie maybe, but their dmg is still a bit lower than Power ones. So there is no superior condition build in this game. For Dungeons: Power for max dmg for all with exception of celestial eles. Same for PvP: Power is burstier and “safer” option. You don’t need to worry about all these condi cleanse.

Hi! I’m not sure about how do i use Staff: as suport, utility only weapon or does it have any damage potential too?
When leveling (lvl 34 right now) dmg seems very high, but when i join PvP (and get lvl 80 stats) i found it more as a support weapon … I put my marks on the floor and then swap to Dagger or Scepter for dmg part. Any tips how can i increase Staff dmg, because it really suits to my Necromancer more than other weapons

I like it! Almost the same build as i’m using it right now.

hardest to play? For me Elementalist, no doubt. 20 butons, 20 fingers is way to much to be as effective as i’m on my Warrior or Mesmer. One mistake and you go from 100 – 0 in 2 seconds.
Engineer is super easy if you avoid grenades: go P/P, elixirs or gadget + elixir gun and have fun.

Thx for your replies and tips guys

I think i will stay condi for a while, because i’ve found it a bit simplier :P I mean i can’t find much synergy between GS and Sw: while first one requieres me to be as far away from my opponent as possible another one forced me into melee lol. A bit wierd combination. How can you handle it?

Btw is Scepter viable for dungeons? Atleast for easiest ones? I’m not very reach, have about 35 gold and if i buy full exotic gear and weapons with condi stats for WvW i would like to keep that gear for some time for dungeons as well if possible untill i get more money. Or will i be just fine with yellow Power gear in dungeons?
Any GS and Staff build maybe? Or Sw + Staff?

For pve you should use GS + Axe/Mace, if you wanna go full zerker. Some Banners for better team support
SPvP GS + Sw/Shield for great mobility and survivability or GS/LB or GS/H for more control.
For WvW GS + Sw/Shield or LB. Could be Rifle too for solo roaming. But there are so many combinations …

Hi! What are pros and cons of power vs condi build in PvP and WvW? I like them both: condi Scepter/Torch + Staf and Power GS + Staf or Sw/x. I just can’t decide … Want to sit in ONE build not changing it every match lol.
I’m not yet lvl 80 btw.
And which one do you think can be more effective: PU power or PU condition build?

What about Mesmer?

What is the purpose of Ferocity exactly? It increases crit dmg, yes, but so do Power!

More Power = higher sustain AND higher crit numbers.
More Ferocity only adds to higher crit numbers.

Great video, Holl!
But what about Swords as main weapons for dungeons?

BlackTruth.6813:

My point is, Warrior right now is balanced. It rewards good players and bad players just should re-roll to easier specs like Guardian in general or D/D ele.

How can an Ele be easier than a Warrior??? Warrior is the easiest spec in the game for me, while Elementalist is disgustingly complicated and requieres 20 fingers to be really effective. Ele might perform better than warr, but requieres much more skilled player.

I play LB + Sw/Sw Celestial and i’m just fine and playsyle is very mobile and easy, ok dmg, ok survivability, can’t be kited.

KittyRiv.5291:

I think sword is a good as its even been for power. For condition it is weaker just because condition warrior is overall just weaker than it was before the patch.

Power Sword??? Sorry, i’m a bit new to this game and never thought that swords can be used as a Power build. But how much dmg would i loose, if i completely ignore condi stats on my Sword/s?

Depends … Do you like to slowly kill your opponents? Try condi Warrior LB + Sw/Sw, Mesmer or Necromancer.
Wanna do burst condi? Guardian, engie, ele, ranger.
Mesmer probably the best in part of dmg and survivability.

Bean Muncher.5197:

Sifu.9745:

I also play World of Warcraft and PvP there is much more relaxing: you can go AFK for 10 sec and you won’t die vs one opponent in most casses. In GW2 you can get destroyed in a second just for one mistake …

What? PvP in World of Warcraft has windows of about 10 seconds without any inputs? And damage is so low that 1v1’s basically never end? That sounds like the most passive, boring gameplay I have ever heard of.

It’s funny, sometimes I’m disappointed by Arenanet, but once I see how good the core game is compared to other games, especially other MMO’s, I’m happy again.

It ends in about 12 seconds – 2 minutes. Ok, top geared players would just one or two shot low geared ones but that doesn’t count much. Usualy it takes 20 – 30 seconds, depends on your gear, opponents gear, your role … For example as a dps you won’t kill any healer with half a brain with few exception neither will healer kill you, because wow pvp is not blanced around 1vs1. If healer would die 1 on 1 he won’t be able to heal his teammates, only desperately trying to keep him self alive.
In GW2 you can only play 5vs5 matches while in WOW you can choose between Arenas: 2 vs 2, 3 vs 3, 5 vs 5, Battlegrounds: 10vs10, 15vs15 and 40 vs40 and World PvP which sucks.

In GW2 burst dmg is just insane. Sometimes i just see mesmer or thief … and i am on 20% of my health lol.

What about a Thief? or condi Warrior?

xZyemto.3928:

You are funny Do you expect something if you only autoattack ? If yes, you may consider to delete your ele and create a pewpew >:3

No, but i expect to live much longer, if my autoatack aplies Weakness, Blind on procs and i’m in some kind of defensive stance, and my dmg is like non existing. I mean there is no point to stay in earth for more than two seconds, with or without Weakness on your target. Yust to get buffs and move on to another attunement.
I also play World of Warcraft and PvP there is much more relaxing: you can go AFK for 10 sec and you won’t die vs one opponent in most casses. In GW2 you can get destroyed in a second just for one mistake …

Why don’t you try it by yourself? Take Staff, go Earth (take trait for crit imunity) and spam only autoatack with Weakness. If you can survive more than 5 seconds just with doing this vs. any zerker … Or stand in Fire and hit your enemy with burning and Blind after Blind and try to survive more than 4 seconds with just doing this …
No, you just have to swap attunements like every 2 seconds. So frustrating. I just can’t afford myself to be a bit lazy sometimes as i can do it with my Mesmer …
Elementalist requieres just too much skill for a casual player.

Like that my only defense in PvP is dodge and utility skills lol. I mean i usualy start the fight in Earth attunement (crit immunity) and my Staff autotacak applies Weakness on my opponent, which means 50% less damage taken, but guess what? I can still die in 3-4 seconds, if i don’t dodge and swap attunements alot. Like i don’t take 50% less damage and don’t have a crit imunity trait. And then i put Blind after Blind on my opponent and still nothing happens!!! Wtf? Still get hit with insane burst. Blind should gives my imunity to dmg, but looks like it has no effect at all in PvP?
I don’t know but looks like i should completely ignore Earth att as a Staff ele?

Does your build have any potential in sPvP too? I would like to go full condition because i enjoy playstyle of it: LB + Sw/Sw or shield. I’m casual PvPer and i don’t care about meta, i just want to have some fun in random, non rated PvP. Is condition build so far behind Power one that is not worth taking it even for randoms?
Also what elite should i go for: Rampage vs Signet or banner?

I know but if you check for example your Staff autoatack dmg, you will not notice any difference with or without this trait.

Fire Trait, medium line, up, Pyromancer’s Training: doesn’t increase my damage while in Fire attunement by 10%. It only reduces recharge on Fire weapon skills. Is it a bug or just a tooltip error?

Hi! I’m new to the staff and i am wondering why all of you put traits in Arcana? For my playstyle it is useles. It only provides some small buffs. I go Fire, Watter and Earth or Air. Stuck crit to get Burning procs and blind my opponents on crits (33% chance). Have more survivability than D/D cause i don’t need to sit in melee range 80% of the time.

Traits:
Fire: Up Up Down (is medium bugged? doesn’t give me 10% more dmg in Fire or this is just a tooltip eror?)
Water: Up Up Down or Up
Earth : Up Up Down or sometimes Air: Down Down Up

I just can’t find Arcana of any use, but i’m quite new to this game and need to learn a lot :P

Hi! Is there a way to change stats on your current gear? I have my Warrior with full Exotic mostly Power, Precision and Ferocity gear and weapons but if i decide to go condition build instead, do i need to buy all new exotic gear or is there any other way to simply change for example Ferocity into Condition stat?

Sword! Sword! And once more: Sword! Because it’s the only melee Condition weapon we have and we need it to be on pair with Power melee weapons.

I can kill stuff much faster with P/P or P/D/S. I know that SB is meant to be more utility weapon, but damage part still shouldn’t have been so love. Probably lowest ranged weapon dmg in the game.

If you don’t want to die, if you want to live forever, forget about D/D or Scepter, go Staff + celestial. You probably won’t kill anything 1 vs 1 but you can survive 1 vs 2 or even 1 vs 3 for quite a long time. Great for defending bases, group support and also great AOE dmg when multiple players fighting in small area and doesn’t put attention on you.

GS + Rifle > GS + Hammer.

You all say that Rifle is stronger single target dmg … In my case that’s not true. LB autoatack (with burning trait) is like twice stronger than Rifle autoatack. F1 is the only strong Rifle dmg.
Btw in PvP i can’t stand without ranged weapon, while in pve i try to avoid it as much as i can.

Doesn’t matter, really. Everything works just fine. You can go with Staf and sit on Fire atunement 80% of your time and do great dmg from distance, or if you want to have more fun go D/D and swap attunements a lot, but you will have a bit harder time keeping yourself alive vs elites. Just avoid Scepter. Go with Power and condition. Some precision would be nice too. Mix your stats and get the best results.
As for traits go Fire and Air, if you want more dmg. Fire is must have for both: D/D/Foc and Staff. another one you should go Arcana or Earth, if you need more survivability.

Ty, ty, ty, ty a lot! It really helps! Nice to see so many different and useful Scepter builds … Now the time for practicing has come.
I don’t care if i wont be able two shotting people, i more prefer slowly killing and annoying them with some tricks, stelth and actualy have some fun.

Hi! Is there a Scepter/Torch + probably Staff which can work in PvP and WvW? I really am a fun of a Scepter :P Like animations and condition damage. But i’m not sure would i be just as effective as Sw/x + GS or Staff + GS?

I see there are two maps for lvl 80 only, but i, as fresh 80, can’t find the entrance. Any help would be appreciated.

Edit: And i have another question: how do i set my keybinds for each profession separated? I mean as a Warrior i use T instead of F1 and 4 for weapon swap, but as Elementalist i don’t have weapon swap options and i would like to bind different keys on my attunements, like 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Rampage …? The worst elite choise for me. Do you know that you get no benefit from healing signet when you use Rampage? And you can’t use 4 of your abilities during rampage, inclouding heals.

Yep, dmg is insane right now. Sometimes 2 or 3 seconds are enough and you are down lol. All you need to do is to max your dmg and CC and forget to any more defensive oriented builds: they are in the game just for … what?

I know that I’m just a bit confused about how do i increase my LB dmg: with power build (no condi) or more condi and precision build or with mixture of condi, pow and precision … Mah, i will just start with celestial build for sPvP: it gives me mixture of everything what i need …

Do you have any condi gear or just power and precision? I might give it a try, cause i more prefer LB with GS than LB + Sw/Sw.

I also notice that my LB autoatack (with 1 sec bleeding included) do more dmg than Sw autoatack??? Jut a tooltip error?

Ty. What about Staff/scepter Mesmer instead of Staff/GS? Condi vs power build? Or Thief P/P + SB?

I only use it for soloing For dungeons and groups i would rather go with GS + axe/x.

Btw is GS/LB viable for sPvP and WvW? How do you mix GS power build with LB condi to be effective? Or, if i go Power, Precision and Ferocity build instead of condittion, will my LB dmg suffers a lot? Is there really such a huge difference? I would get much stronger Arcing Arrows instead …

Hi! Is there a profession which can be played optimally with ranged weapons only in both weapon sets? Like Staff + Scepter or Longbow + X or Pistols + grenades? D/D Elementalist excluded: they are more melee than ranged prof …

Great tips about Leap finisher! Thank you for your time, Ilias.

Edit: The funny thing is, that with this build with Sw/Sw + LB i can also get great results in soloing mobs and elites: like i can do it even faster that GS + Axe/Mace lol.
I’m not yet lvl 80, btw.

Ty very much

Hi! I really enyoj playing LB on my Warrior (much more than on my Ranger) in PvP and i’m wondering how can i increase its dmg and usage in sPvP and WvW? I would like to go with max possible dmg and mobility. Other weapon would be sw/sw/or shield probably, because i would like to go condition build mostly. Can’t imagine anything stronger for Longbow. + Some defense would be nice too
I know that LB is not meant to be number one weapon choice but i just want to have some fun, nothing serious … I don’t care about meta.
Any help and tips would be appreciated.

@ Raif Very nice, i like it, ty
But this is dungeon only build, right?

Is there any build (pve, PvP …) or weapon that doesn’t requie swaping between all four attunements? I woul only like to use two or max three of them, but now i’m forced to use them all … Any tips?
As a D/D or S/x Ele this seems impossible, not sure about Staff …
For me it is much harder to be as effective as i am on my Warrior, no matter what weapon set do i go for …