Guild Wars 2

So warrior was OK with no sustain, stustain comes, more people play warrior, few people know how to fight warrior, time to demand a nerf. Right. I remember a similar Discussion 2014. seems people can’t handle getting killed by the “noob omg you so Bad should play teef reroll or kick i hate Warriors cos they are not compicated yadayadayada” class.
Here’s news:
General Discussion:
- you post here mainly for pve matters, general topics
-your post fits the warrior, Mesmer wvw sub forum
-why post here? Most attention for a chronomancer that can’t fight a warrior? Mate that may backfire horribly.

Regarding Warriors:
- you light want to know that i carry arround: 1 axe, 2swords, 1rifle, 1 longbow, 1 greatsword, 1 shield, 1horn, 2 sets of different armour.
All easyly clickable. If i see a class that might be more mobile, i switch gear accordingly, if i expect melee pressure and low stability, welcome may i introduce me trusty axe and shield? Here’s a headbut.

It is understandable that many struggle with a class that was rather rare as of late.
But:

I for one object immensely to posting supposedly unfair dmg threats, while playing a utility class that is more common than blue loot and who’s playerbase is on par with the scrappers fan base in their opinion that the need the most skill.

Another piece of news:
“Skill” is not having lots of buttons to mash and hope that the enemy can’t handle stealth and easy to Dodge shatters.
If skill for a class is defined by the number of buttons then wow so many skilled eles arround.
You might consider that the warrior looked for an opening, if you duel and you do not mix kite and punishment and shatter into each of the sooo op ignore pains (you know 60 sec CD) sorry then you have to learn the hard way.
Warriors like you seem to have envountered, will try to force your dodges, then engage CC and press heavy dmg. Try to kite berserkmode ( torchsymbol) block or evade his bursts (no heal for him). Hammer away on him once his first ignore pain runs out. Wait restrain dmg and let him storm arround while he is in ignore pain. No warrior will attack you while you are invuln. Every one Sees when your invuln runs out Warriors can wait and headbut you while you whirl your sword arround and root yourself. Do never let a warrior come closer than 900 if you do be prepared for stuns. You can stunnlock Warriors. Just kite if you see either, stability higher than 2 (3 means balanced stance is on, no use trying to CC now) 10 (dolyak Signet) or a black armour or a yellowish shield Symbol. ( ignore pain, shieldblock).
Again Warriors gain sustain by hitting with their burst. Do not get hit by that.
You have: invis, Dodge, cloneswap, block, blind, weakness, vulnerability, CC, burst over distance.
You look out for bursts by looking on animations.
They are different with most races\genders:
-axe: eviscerate. Most often a rather slow jump, if you are not cced no biggy, if you are: birch or oak?
-sword: normal is a CC that bleeds, Berserker is a fire throwing cartoon tennisbat move. The matter is mobile and a projectile, though they are highly inaccurate if you are beyond 600 range.
GS: the normal is easy to spot( a piouette) and evade, even by walking as the range is low, the Berserker Form though is the same in faster meaner and has a bigger range.
Rifle: normal the bloke kneels and aims for ever, if you get hit by that, go back and train dodgeing. The Berserker Form is not rooted, takes less time to aim , Hits hard and Interrupts, but its a big firey ball. You can Dodge, unless you are right up in bis face.
Mace: both are Interrupts, both hit hard, both cast quick both have almost no range.

If you rely on your illusions for dmg be aware they die really fast, i often try to cleave the things. Every one and their dog knows what to do with phantasma defender\berserker.

Be fast, on range and look to force the Engagement, let the main attacks and defenses run into nothing. Chrono can more than handle Warriors, you just have to get used to fighting then.

My opinion is that this is the General Discussion. You know there are sub Forums for pvp and wvw.

What is up with all the “buff thieves” theats in General Discussion? Are you guys afraid of posting in the thieves forum because you know they will pulmonary strikte you for the suggestions?
Really 5 mins ago the vitallity threat got moved to the sub forum…. If your concern is with the class: thieves den.
If your concern is with the thief’s Rolle in wvw or pvp: wvw or pvp forum. If you want shiny wings, cry for a refund or randomly shout out why you quit: General Discussion.

Now, with regards to your suggestions.
I suggest the following. Play zerker gear p\p Staff or Staff d\p join a pvp match look out for light armour, enjoy. I main they Bad Bad low skill trash warrior. And even a scrub like me got the champion shaddow achievement in under 2 months. Mate once you get used to this class it is amazing how much possible options you have. I enjoy playing thief. It is not direct and head in but please play staff and only after you got used to it decide if Staffel is trash. I for one use staff right now to cheese unranked matches. Staff 5 in point 2 times and you most likely killed something. Condi thief is hard to pull of, the dmg is lower, but lets be honest there are few things more infuriating to fight than a good condi thief. That how ever is just my experience.

Oi my warrior has no blazing balls mate. If you see one, send him to the closest druid asap, that can’t be healthy.

If we, again my guys, my experience, have a commander and some one willing to Scout they get it right away. They are not molested, they get help if they say its new for them. How ever, our server\s has the problem that we are divided by two Hardliner groups of both linked Servers.
Those people flame and molest scouts for being from a cerain server. They sit in their own TS and feel great.
But apart from this, no we do not molest out scouts, lower mid Tier bliss i guess

Let it be any thing, a war Banner or something… But please no more Wings….

Hello Mr. Fox,
do you know what a fox hunt is?
If not, you will most likely know soon.
This is better suited for the pvp\ thief sub forum, or even the revenant\ necro Forums as most suggestions like that pop up there.
Just for one second think what other mechanics the thief has. Can you, with a straight face, demand a change like that?

I have infinite light myself for two years now, and yes it seems a rather rare, how ever i have not seen one person carrying the improvised shield. that seems really quite unpopular…

This gate was allways like this, However as was allready stated. It is by far the easiest to defend, given you have scouts and Siege.
The inner wall cannons can defend the outer gate, only way to remove them properly is a ballista covered by a shield generator ( that is ofc if the cannons are manned, no scouts? Weeeel toughtough luck)
past the outer gate Siege is often enough to repell up to 30 guys, if you have a zerg that defends this gate becomes a death trap. Similar to the SW gate the attackers are stacked in a chocke point often unable to counter Siege with out shield gens and even then in case the defenders charge outside look arround, there is little place to evade to. When attacking this inner gate and i hear incomming i instantly cast battle standard XD pugs gonna drop in droves.
The only time the weak WG becomes a problem is if you do not have people scouting and knowing how to defend the gate. This is often a coverage Problem though. Remember many just try to rush this gate and do not bother with shield gens or ballistae and just try to ram or golem rush.
In this case: go to the Cannon, \wave, \shrug, press f, press 4, 1, 2, 3, aim down, click.

Yes that would be rather nice.

Same as with conditions, good idea, nice concept buuut we allready have a ton of boons. I am not sure if more boons are really this nessesary. Again i like your idea, but some classes seem to bleed boons.. I hardly think there is a neeed for more.

You know, there is something these topics remind me of. Edward or Jacob?

Instead of making assumptions to the players skill just accept that it is more often than not a simple matter of taste and you know what people say about taste.

Remember condition requires skill. Only intelligent and skilled people play condi. This rubbish is the main argument thrown arround to defend condition builds. They are supposedly more skillfull. I have my doubts about that, as far as i can see condition dmg has several… Let’s say blind spots with regards to balance. This may be the main reason i detest condition builds. Quite often they are used to kill the unknowing easily and pose a thread to those familiar with them, while the user has quite often to put less effort into playing it. Those people tend to gloat and advertise uncomplete game mechanics like this as a l2p issue.

To end this late night rant: yes the increase in condi play is, imho, a direct result of people taking the most effective route to killing lots of players that are not prepared for them. The more condition application and dmg are increased the more people will use it.

Gw2 has two class roles, buffed and whineing. They change every 3 months.
Seriously though, we have a looser class role system than other games, that happens to be the reason why people enjoy this game. Oh and ofcourse there are people disliking it, but maybe its just the wrong game then…

Derwish for the warrior, don’t you dare giving it to thief or rev!

It appears you are 4 years late to the party mate. Both mechanics have been revised several times. They remain in the same because they fit the games combat mechanic. If they were such unstoppable and game breaking mechanics we would have heard a bigger outcry. As it stands there are counters for both. Revealed springs to mind. You see a refi wall? Take a step left vor stop fireing. Both mechanics are far beyond uncounterable. One has to geht used to it, yes, but one can learn and maybe even use the complacency of the enemy to your advantage. Use unblockable attacks, with regards to stealth, two words: channeling skills.

First of, no need to speak of yourself like that mate.
Secondly it might help if you give a wee but information on where you are from, NA or EU.
It might help if you also tell us wich class you play, they vary, that is unless you just want general information.
Most importantly though, be patient. Learning your class is one step learning maps and roles the next take your time.

So i really do not understand why it should or should not be removed for every one.
Why force people to do one of those instead of adding an option to switch this on\off.
What is the reason for demanding a change of being forced to do one thing that would result in other people being forced to do something they do not like\want.

Texturen suggestions:
Northern Europe green gras, not the light green, the dark green.
Dark wood on trees.
Wvw exclusive wall Skins not pve wall Skins reworked.

Brown earth textures, not red and not sandy like.
Camps and houses reworked.
Again maybe Northern European themed, rather than these mud houses with straw on the roof.
How ever:
That would break with the style we currently for consistency reasons possibly a nono.

I just posted in another threat and once again something that would be rather nice came to my mind.

How about an Option to save graphic presets.
I for one get 60 fps with max settings stareing at a wall, turn around… Bang 44, 30, 20, 50.
I change a bit around all’s well until i meet larger groups. So i have to change settings again. After the fight i change them again to suggested, and change those again to fit my need.
The game has hugely different Hardware requirements depending on the game mode and Situation.

I think it would be nice to habe more than 3 presets (for me 2, as suggested and max quality are the same settings for me).

How about 6 settings
- pve exploration, dungeon (possibly raids, but the newest wings can tax the frame rate, at least for me.)
-pve worldbosses
-pvp matches
-pve cities
-wvw roaming\scouting
-wvw zerg fights
Inside those settings you can save your choices and possibly even hot switch them with out accessing a menue. Just a key press and you have another settings.

I would realy apreciate it.

How about you guys?

Ezee.8793:

They are so ugly vs. Desert BL. I dont go back to 2012 :/

Heretic

Srsly though as long as the performance in zerg fights is ok, i find i do not care.
How ever i Start to care if i am scouting the Hill.
Some graphical fidelity is allways welcome. Just do not kill the performance please.

Yeah thats the Problem with raw magic power, hard to control, but kitten those insect’s still manage to manipulate it, eh

TorquedSoul.8097:

People pulling levers without permission?

This sounds like an organizational issue. Your pugs don’t respect your authority.

Authority? good grief man,

my server even has two TS after the merge, Drama will be Drama and some people allways find a way to fluff stuff up. Not much can be done without strickt rules enforced by gms and 24\7 coverage. Even then, if a net had the resources, what should they enforce what’s good use what’s bad. I think that is something beyond a net’s control, sadly.

Well it would be fine if i could activate the carpet in wvw, i can activate tonics, but nooooo running around as a dolyak is not as “bad” as flying a bloody floor rug is….

Well once again… How about an option to enable this. Instead of argueing why it should or should not be forced, let the player decide how they want it, and accept the consequences either way.

Norn with scottish accent, i will pay!!! Make it happen pretty Please.

I like the idea, but how could one stop griefing.. You see griefing with siege and supply is allready a rather controverse topic. my fear would be what happens if players place big structures to prevent los of defencive siege, to block gates or portals, drain supplies or simply do not know what to do. Who is allowed to place then? How is this determined? Who deciedes whats griefing? Who takes care of griefing and removes possible griefers.

I do not want to disencourage you. I really like the idea, but as i see it right now in planet side it is not really well implemented, yet the damage is lower because the maps are a lot bigger and the movement (flying, jetpacks, different spawn locations like squad and sunderer) is different.

I am curious what ideas our community comes up with.

Captureing objectives like: sentry posts, supply camps, towers, shrines and keeps
All are events that grant participation.
Defending an objective does so as well.
And don’t forget whacking the enemy over their evil heads is another way of gaining it. But make sure they are dead. If it still moves, poke harder.

Yeah thats the bummer, you neeed to rank up a bit more then.
On the bright side your birthday celebration booster afflicts wxp gain. Pop one of those next time you join a zerg thats on a pvd run ( that is taking stuff down with out a fight, for instance eotm) and you gain wvw ranks quite fast.

Best of luck mate!

oh think you might have gotten something wrong there. the blue bar on the lower part of your screen is world experience gained for your account rank. the reward track is not influenced by world experience directly.
two things are important here. once you activated the wvw reward track ( press b or any other allocated key for you wvw menue, look for the chest symbol, activate the wvw reward track) you will gain progress with every so called “tick” that is the time where the point of the different servers are credited, roughly every 15~ Mins. the ammount of points you get credited to your reward track is bound to the ammount of so called participation. that can be seen over you mini map. another little chest symbol will give you information about the points you will recive per tick and how high your participation is. to gain participation you have to actually kill players or do defence or offence events. should you be as scout for your server a commander may grant you shared participation with another group of players, so even if you do nothing but spitballing in veloka you get credit.
If you want to maximize your gain in paricipation you can do camps on your own or take down sentries. i suggest that you join a zerg if you are not comfortable with doing stuff on your lonesome.
To end my ramble, wxp is not directly tied to your reward track, your participation in wvw events is, every 15 minutes this is added to your reward track. spend an hour with maxized paricipation on a map and you gain 550 points per tick, that is 2200 points per hour. there is no way to boost this particular rewards.
i hope i could help you

One last thing did you rank up after the release of HoT or were your ranks aquired before october 2015?

I hope you remembered to select a reward track ( yup i went there xD). It seems you now gain then mainly trough the wvw reward track, but do not quote me on that. Another way is buying the little buggers, as they are not top expensive right now.

As warrior main i can tell you i seldom go out with out my trusty clockwork specialist guildied
They are usefull, helpfull, versatile and many people i know have a blast playing it. Give it a try buuuuut also give it time. Get used to the mechanic and your possible roles.

Have fun!

I take your ele and guard an raise you ventari, great dwarf and malyx

Look for them in your toon’s inventory. Right click and consume all. Sadly you do have to do this in each toon, but then again it’s Vetter than looseing the buggers.

Thanks guys both make sense. It was just that i interpret shields as a means to protect while arms are means of conquer and enslave, as seen with the centaurs and tengu. That is why i struggled with the winged symbolism. Silly me i main warrior, I should know a shields is an offensive ( yes terrible pun but i stand to it) weapon.

Thanks for your insights!

Please do not touch it guys. Last night i had a thief bickering for 5 mins straight on how op warrior and headbutt shieldbash evicerate are…

drcraig.9403:

Sadrien.3470:

drcraig.9403:

If it’s red, it’s dead.

Pls go back to pve.

How am I ever going to “get good” at pvp if I do that. I’ll play whatever game mode I choose and hopefully disrupt as many duels as possible along the way.

Rally the centaurs, ready the charr, i shall call a huntingparty to hunt you down good Sir or Madame!

Yeah i know that title, right?

One thing that i from time to time wonder about is the seraph and their wing- like theme. i am talking about the weapons. As far as i recall the humans and their worship of dwayna and the others never resulted in that many “angel” wings on their weapons in gw1.
What changed?
I remember dwayna’s derwish avatar maybe remotely resembeling an angel. But why does the human royal guard (?) present arms embellished with symbols that are linked to a rather peacefull goddess? Is it to emphasize the peace keeping role of the Seraph? Or is there a more militaristic twist to it. I read the novels and do not recall any mention on why the Seraph choose these ornaments.
Did the Interpretation of dwayna change? And are Seraph similar to crussaders in other fantasy releases? ( i have to stress fantasy, not real life) Do they See them selfes as holy Warriors? I thought that one was for the Guardians, but then again; there are asura, charr and cabbage guardians. Why do they use the goddess’ symbol on their arms. I think there is a difference to displaying wings on your regalia (?) and banners and forging weapons that resemble religious symbols.
Is there any explanation in game or lore?
And i do apologize, i did ramble a wee bit.

Edit:
I am aware of this: "their shields bear wings out of respect to the goddess Dwayna. " but this only speaks of shields not axes, swords and rifles.

I would write a funny remark in how much i think it is a bad idea, but i am stunned speechless.

Cynz.9437:

Rotations.

Yes team comp matters but i have won with multiple thieves on team so here is that.

That and the hybris to kill every thing that moves, even off point and out of Position.

Jaken.6801:

Silberfederling.9302:

For me he had two sons named koss my warrior and my revenant:)
Needless to say koss never dies he was way too cool for that.
Honestly though i would love to know as well.

You might want to go further down the familytree here. There are 250 years between GW1 and GW2, so if they are not immortal or traveled through time/mist, they are pretty old.
Like, this is Koss jr jr jr jr….

OFC he’s immortal. Koss can’t die. I shan’t allow it

One word: Drama
German Servers do like their infernal Drama, we have 2 TS Servers, some players come along quite nicely, others need to reenact game of Thrones, with out the sex that is
Edit: i wanted to write internal, but infernal is quite fitting XD

Oooh. That makes more sense, well i suggest you wait a wee bit, i for one hope they implement a fix soon. Maybe do something else in the meantime, doing something you loathe is the besteht way to burn yourself out on a game, wvw player here, been there done that, there is a special rock in SW where i carved “i just can’t anymore” into

" I don’t play GW2 but I saw the reward as a way to finally get my reapers GS but now I have to play the hunt " and how exactly do your play a reaper with out playing GW2?

I think it was stated that the matchup system might take a few weeks to adjust. I feel for you guys. Hang in there!

One thing you might want to considered is, while you recive a boost to your stats you have very low armor and even trash dmg might kill you. Your dmg will be low as well. This may taint your experience in wvw, but whats more you will be a Chance for the enemy to rally. Zuge parts of the wvw community were quite vocal in their dismay with regards of so called upscaled players in their zergs. Outside of a zerg you will most certainly be prey for roamers, i suggest you reach lvl 80 first and give it a try. You may however encounter the term “rally bot”. Do not be bothered. Return once you are 80 and start gearing up. It may also pay out for you to talk to your server’s community, as they can help you more direct than the forum can.

I hope you find fun in wvw

“Signed your entire international community”
Yeah… Well… No!

For me he had two sons named koss my warrior and my revenant:)
Needless to say koss never dies he was way too cool for that.
Honestly though i would love to know as well.

Yes as OP so aptly stated: Thanks guys! You did a great job. Now, there is still stuff to be done, but you have me the feeling that we can expect a lot of good comming out way.