Guild Wars 2

Episode 22 “This Ain’t Noah’s Ark” added

Looks like I will get to go 3.0 soon Guardian changes thats not (Tweaks) coming soon. Should be fun because I think we were just about out of ideas atm.

Ep 21 Busts Out “What the eye beholds”

Im a bit late I was on vacation thx to Aoshi and Rustypipes

Guild wars 2 Guardian Play list added

Episode 20 added

Sorry for the super late response I was on vacation. What I normally say when being faced with a 10 point swing. Is try both don’t just listen to me because my way may not be optimal for you.

It should always be about fun. It’s too bad guys don’t equalfun with actually being good at the game. You can be good and have fun too.

Episode 19 added

Side note since for some reason it makes me authincate every time I come on the forum is that new? Or something wrong with this post lol? It only does that would I come to this forum….

@Link I don’t have to insist they just are you have like 1000 posts on that over several sites. Just because in your opinion you don’t think so doesn’t mean it’s not the concensus the other way. I mean I could link you 20 post on this forum alone stating it with proof and numbers. I’m happy for you if you have a group of people who in your server community who run a lot.

But if you didn’t know now you know that isn’t the norm. Fractals basically mortal kombat finished the story/explorable dungeons. Outside of AC/COF everyone knows that it was mass posted first day of the LS patch lol…..

@Hawk we will see if they do something like that in the patch coming. It be nice and wouldn’t take much coding or change I imagine.

It’s all good but don’t even call yourself a average gamer. The way i see it everyone is equal it’s just a game. When guys start thinking they’re better then everyone the game stops being fun.

And I agree on the weapon number 1 combos Hawk. That would make people stop button mashing and think about the end of the attack. Say if your out of range maybe use 2-5 to close the gap/clense/CC etc…. You can come up with a world of things and they wouldn’t have to change the skill bar at all. And give us some more depth at the same time.

This build be fine in a dungeon you actually could spam heal a bit faster on your F2 heal.
Damage won’t be great but you will stay alive and buff people around you. So that makes it ok in dungeons.

Oh one thing I forgot I don’t know what server your on. But I’ve been on a few traveling with you tube fans just making visits. And number one thing they say is close to impossible to do normal dungeons now. No one wants to do them anymore beyond grinding Legendary parts. Which just makes Ascalon done alot along with COF for its social look.

As it stands now even once you get sets you never go back or even want to. That isn’t good because it’s a big part of the game not used. Which again makes you lose population. Because it’s one less thing people are doing to stay online.

@Link hard to get and unreasonable are two different things. Check out my Legendary guide in my sig on that I went into depth on that.

@Dark Epiphany Who you calling average I’ve done everything the game has the offer almost twice over on two different characters. You shouldn’t assume things you don’t really know or even asked about. It’s part of the reason I’m sponsored on so many GW2 sites. Because I been there done that and showed the my stripes.
The only thing I haven’t done is gone as far as I can in fractals around 25 that becomes rather hard to group. And Legendary weapons even though I have them just about done on two characters. I don’t really care at the moment about it because they just don’t impress me.

@Red You know how long the video was originally lol? It was around 60 minutes no one to be honest would want to watch that. It be really hard to get to everything and make everyone happy mentioning things. So instead I spoke on main problems people have right now. Also it’s a opinion I said it several times in the beginning so it doesn’t matter your take on my understanding.
I know why it’s the way it is the review is about how what has happen to this point and what bothers people. And when did I say force anyone to be social. Again you are the one not understanding the video. Another problem people had with the game is it’s anti social. You can’t just ignore issues of a game people have by labeling them misconceptions. You lose player base like that it’s good practice DON’T LET THAT HAPPEN.

No one liked Lost Shores community was split on fractals. If you check my combat depth post you will see just how many people want depth and more skills. You can not like it but its quite a lot of people who want more. As far as pvp it’s like I said if you bust your kitten for 40 hours a week and do overtime. Do you really want someone who misses work and a bad worker entitled to the same things as you?

That is why I said pvp should actually have a divide. Because when it doesn’t it smacks the face of the person who earns the position of top. Rift isn’t plague with that problem they are plague with people who think they are entitled to win just because they logged in. And this game is starting to suffer that same fate laziness.

Also the length I tried to shorten this as much as I could just wasn’t happening lol.

Underdog a lot of people have no problem at all understanding the skills and want more. Check my combat depth post and see just how many people want more. Your however proving my point about gamers being lazy and not wanting to get off they’re butts and learn. But then when the company nerfs the game into kitten mode. The same people say it’s too easy and bail.

My suggestion to do that is ignore the lazy whiners. Either they get with the program or get left behind. The same way if in school you can’t hack it you fail the class. You don’t get a diploma from a ivy league college so to speak for failing to get with the program. Games should be the same way and things be a whole lot better.

Plasma you have a complaint for everything why are you even on the net. That eats electricity runs your bill up and you have to pay more. Get the hint comparison? STOP complaining if your on a social site. Links you tube twitter facebook etc are the norm. Plus stay on topic

I’ll be going back to the 2.0 for the weekend. And posting fractals using it sorry I haven’t been updating much. Been involved in alot of you tube going on’s the past two weeks.

His suggestion is what I said in the vid to begin with lol…..

Ok you named one class out of 8 lol…..So everyone must reroll Elementalis? That’s not really a viable suggestion. Also if you had to adjust for growth of the game you just gotta suck that up. I’m pretty sure people would concur that they take growth over worrying about one mouse.

I was told last week you know Storm you have never done a review of Gw2 or your actual thoughts. So I said well kitten you know what I never have. So here it is my thoughts on the game what could help it what’s hurting it. Here’s a list of things I touched on feel free to input your own thoughts as well. You have no right or wrong statements here. It’s all opinion and good to get out want and desires.

Community, World Events, Dungeon, Professions, Looks&Style, Combat, and PVP

I also touched on what could help the game more in depth towards the end. For example better social interaction because we have no urging to even do so at the moment. Also more server engaging world events that make the server react and do something beyond zerging. Better reason to do the normal dungeons being that they are almost all but abandoned.

Legendaries needs to be streamlined because even with help it’s still too ridiculous right now to be worth your time. Finally the last two things more skills need to be added to the weapons and the means to switch them. And SPVP/WVW needs to mean a bit more than it does right now. A better carrot at the end so to speak we can run for.

I went more in depth in the video but for those who don’t wish to watch that is more than fine. Like I said above leave your views and comments hopefully something we say will get noticed and added to the game.

I started trying the shield more with my soldier build. I was actually more interesting then I remembered it to be. It really does have a place in builds if people give it a fair shot.

Level 80 farming tactics added

Episode 18 added purple barney of doom indeed

Well a response of sorts was on reddit but none addressing the mountain of suggestions here

Still no response to us or even patch notes on the main site that’s a bit sad. And punt the toy maker even already its pass new years lol……….

These are just build I was sent that people made out of the blue print on my channel.
Full credit given

Burning Weapons Build http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mccozz9cMLmMkMGmMkGGfVaMooRoV
Builder= McClaren
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2 Symbol Master http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mccz0M9cMLmMmMGmMkGGfVaMooRoV
Builder= WarTwoK
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Interesting choices how people use different builds. Not sure if it will work or not at all. But variable things placed on forums are always good.

yea no moment no evasion no reason for you to be on the team=Gimped.
Just because a move is faceroll doesn’t mean it can do everything. Or even make it so your worth being there just doing that one move lol..

Azuriel.9137:

Kerithlan.1659:

It’s not my attitude, it’s ArenaNet’s. Whenever they’ve described combat and dungeons in the past, they’ve deliberately set time aside to discuss how players switching roles in combat (in this particular way) is an integral part of their system. Not my fault if you don’t like it.

Never said I didn’t like it. I don’t care how people play. Sometimes it works for them and sometimes it doesn’t. If anything, I find it interesting and slightly enjoyable to watch how some people play.

The only thing I don’t like, is when someone say “You’re playing the game wrong.” Especially when so many people play so many ways. Because you “think” the game should be played a certain way doesn’t make it right.

If I excel at what I am doing and how I go about it, then I am obviously doing something right. And that goes for every other class as well. Just because they explain a mechanic or class a certain way does not mean that’s the only way.

One of the great things about this game. You can adapt almost anything to the way you like to play. Just takes a little tweaking.

I say that a lot don’t worry about what others think of your game style. Play how you want to play as long as you win it doesn’t matter.

As you can see in my soldier build you can use them and use them well. The way I left things in the build you have 40 points to swing what ever way. I’m testing each of those ways as we speak. PVP wise it’s more funny then I expected.

Camstasia Amins it’s what I use probably the best.

Between this isn’t the type of game you can even properly test dps. Because almost no fight can you stay consistently engaged to even gauge it. So looking for highest dps is almost pointless. What should be looked for is consistent damage and you staying alive to do it. In this games instance that is the highest dps that you never haved to even test. Because a dead dps does no dps or a dps that must run for its life. When breathed on also is gimp dps.

Lets see those builds I have about 5 to put up people have sent. They will get full credit of course. I’m glad you guys are that excited on gwguru’s. Cool to see I spawned imagination didn’t want us to be shoe horned into limited builds. I’m working on redoing the Guardian Tank too.

I think he is over stating that extremely. Because if I only used 1 on my guardian or Elementalist in any weapon. I’d be a useless gimp in pve or pvp

They already said in the class balance post we won’t be ranging. Gotta except it although spamming the staff 2 attack does a great deal of damage PVE wise. PVP you may want to use another tactic.

Isn’t that a case of something being a little too broken in the system. I hope that doesn’t show up here. Then you would have a 1000 reply post on how broken it is.

I don’t know about the whole your not a healer line. I’ve already proven for 3 months with the paladin build we are. And for the record they’re isn’t a healer in this game. Because you can’t directly heal a team aggressively. You can passively do it and place fields down but no trinity healing exists period. But the reason why the Paladin build got so highly popular is i figured out how to control heal. And have more control over where and what you can heal.

Which was the whole reason for calling it Paladin in the first place. So now you have my theory on that build. My other builds like Berserker and revamped build now soldier. Are based off of personal experience and fandom. I tend to shy away from throwing away completely what a class is. So even with Berserker being a all or nothing theme. I didn’t abandon what the guardian was just for damage. To be honest that just make the guardian a nerfed warrior.

But it doesn’t matter what build you choose do what is effective for you. Peoples opinions on that don’t matter. Don’t just follow my builds or anyone elses because it’s popular. Do what you like to do and not give a kitten about how it looks. As long as you like doing it is all that matters.

Guardian Vid added

Episode 17 added

Yea I wastold they do actually watch me now and then. I hope they if anything I ever said on You tube. They actually listen to letting us have templates we can roll out. Nothing more than two or three would be enough. At this point unless your new you should have bought everything you need already. So being charged for skill reset is meaningless. And becomes more of an annoyance in the game.

Take your time better to release good content then rush to satisfy anyone. It’s a you tube lesson I learned not to do.

LOL I explained in the video I wasn’t going to use weapon master it didn’t fit anymore. Thus the new name and feel kinda more fitting. Being that you have 40 points to swing where you like. I think the option makes a nice theme park of fun for a build person. So let me know what you come up with. This is designed to be a what if type of post and give a blue print to encourage different builds. I didn’t want guys to just focus on 2 or 3 builds and assume nothing is left to do.

Kinda wish monks were in this game I just like the style of game play they had.

Well they did say they had plans like a month ago and then we heard nothing since. As far as guardian combat you can make it complex like i did in the vid. Or you can button mash which works to a extend until you meet something you can’t face roll through.

Rukia.4802:

Silentstorm.7531:

Well here’s a fact because people seems to compare this game to others. When guild wars came out the next expansion wow came with actually lowered the amount of skills you can have and use on the bars. Rift’s expansion actually did the same thing too. Showing that maybe Anet actually was on to something. If two of its biggest market share competitors copied it so blatantly.

Interesting fact because WoW was released in november of 2004 when GW was released april 2005, BC didn’t hit WoW until ‘07 and in the case you are talking about when guild wars 2 came out, MoP did not lower the amount of skills you can use… my bars didn’t change much at all except for some abilities being made passive and I got new skills to replace those so..

I just noticed your post I think you can’t count. Because wow basically forced you into choosing skills you once could have together. Shrinking how many skills you can actually use at one time. You can only choose 1 in a tree of 3 each tier. Some skills in the past that you had complete control over.

Now either your blind can’t count or didn’t pay attention to the fact that magically came out of nowhere. I was actually in beta for MOP it wasn’t there until the end of testing into going live. You can STILL find people complaining about it on official forums now.

As far as the usual boring you say eq copied troll…Yea for one that jokes old time to Google a new joke. Two it’s obvious blatant copying not that every other company doesn’t do that too. And has nothing to do with the topic. And more or less buttons has nothing to do with how much depth is in a system. You can have only 5 buttons and have good depth if the system engages you to skillfully use them. Case in point most Nintendo games. You had a analog and 2 action buttons but games still had depth.

lol that’s a good one the evil pc version too lol.

^^agreed^^ with the last comment

Guardian: Soldier Alpha Build

Calc Link http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mccozz9cMrmMkMrmMkx0x0aMoaozbV

This is officially a work in progress. By no means is it an end all or even 100% tested. It’s just an alpha build with spirit weapons an idea to kick around. It can go where ever you want it to go. Originally I made a weapon master build a few months back. It was an ok build but now things are a bit different. We are more aware of what we need to do and don’t need.
=========== Why did I make this build? With that said here is the Guardian Soldier Alpha Build. Why is it called that because in Final Fantasy Cloud was a member of soldier. Cloud could technically somehow animate his weapons in special attacks. They never did explain how he did that but it was cool none the less. So we have the ability to do that here as well. This build is designed to have burst some toughness and crowd control. Its flaw that you can actually easily manipulate is health. Inherently the vitality tree doesn't do much for the base core of the build. However you easily have a whopping 40 points you can put where ever you like. And still maintain the core purpose of using a build like this. ===========
Explaining tactics
It’s not a buff build and not a healing build although you will be able to heal. You have an abundance of points to figure out how. It is a tanky stylish one on one artist and actually a good farmer/pve/dungeon build. Generally you want to keep 1 spirit weapon out at a time. And you can manipulate your timers do just that. And maintain 100% uptime to have a spirit weapon out.

In pvp you may want to have both out. But that may slow down your experience as in having a cool down period where you can’t have any out. So your preference will vary on how to proceed there.
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Gear/Traits/Flexibility
The gear I would suggest is Soldier’s or Knights in that order. Soldier’s works well because you will need to be able to take a hit. And it provides the missing health if you choose to shy away from the honor trait line. You have a base you need for this build which is 20/0/0/0/10. Reason is you need the spirit weapons to last longer and to not break when commanded. After that you can venture into whatever you like. Me because I don’t have full soldier gear lying around I went 30/0/30/0/10.

Like I said at the start its WIP an, Alpha totally just an idea to grow on. A fun one that may lead somewhere especially if Arena Net sees’s this and actually says we should buff spirit weapons to be faster and smarter. (Hint Hint) Anyway that’s the build have fun with it be stylish throw a little JI in there and do some combo’s. Hey it’s the weekend anything goes on the weekend.

Well your talking about it being used in a more selfish light.Paladin builds aren’t like they heal around them and provide damage. In this case alot more damage than the 2.0 version.

Good job on the vids doesn’t seem that choppy to me. But then again I’m not anal about guys attempting to be social and give back.