Guild Wars 2

DarkSyze.8627:

Reduce Guardian Damage by 60%-75%- no compensation.
Remove Guardian steal like skill/ability from class- no compensation.

lol. not gonna happen

Hey thanks Smidy! Looks nice, will try it out shortly.

PEWPEWPEW.

All jokes aside.. interesting. I don’t really see any other weapons that would fit guardian, except maybe axe. Rifle or pistols just don’t suit it imo.

Hey guys, thanks a lot for your responses!

First off, I am rather interested in a build that works around burns. I had a friend who ran that really long ago and it was really awesome (I think that must have been january 2013), I also ran it after that but haven’t touched it much since that time. The gear I still have is rabid though, would that work as well as carrion?

Also; is it possible to try play on both direct damage and burning?’

For the other suggestions here;

• signets need some love indeed, they lack the sustain on the other two skill sets, maybe useable in a combo with shouts?
• spirit weapons: not sure, I might try to run something new with them, i’ll post results later.
• consecrations: maybe they can get a spot with WoR?

Hope to get more suggestions!

Greetings and happy gaming.

Quick edit: just roamed with rabid/zerk guardian and it seems viable. Still utilizing meditations, but at least it’s something else and I can use torch for this. ;D Killed couple of other roamers with this, no horrible deaths yet (except from getting ran over by a zerg).

Those hammer hits.. awtch.

Hey guys

I played guardian a lot in WvW for roaming, but each time… I return back to a meditation build using Judge’s Intervention, Smite Condition and Contemplation of Purity. Usually I run it with GS + S/F (either sword or scepter). I know shout builds are also being used for roaming (and I ran them myself some times), but they really don’t do as well as medi builds because they lack movement skills.

Now my question is: are there any alternatives, or am I stuck with meditation meta? Signets, consecrations and spirit weapons all seem awfully weak compared to meditations, so I really am desperate for something new…

Sincerely,
Divinaris

I so wish there was a trait saying “Convert your condition damage to raw damage from mainhand sword when you pick this skill.”

Nicely done! 15 chars

Osu.6307:

Yeah, stab only wrecks the gameplay of melee builds, so you are right, it is not really a big deal.

And we all like ranged kiting so much right? ….

Best roamer servers are down in t8 and t9.

Thief is really weak without stealth… apart from blinds it’s pretty much only thing he has unless he is running sword evasion build.

A valid opinion, OP. I think the best thing is gem conversion in this case. If you really want this weapon skin: buy gems → convert to gold → buy from trading post. This kind of gamble is just not for everyone, it’s rather tedious and far from a guaranteed method of acquisition.

Maarmaaaaaaaaaattt! Dinner’s readyyyy!

Y’know, when forums start to ask after you… it might be your time to shine. :o

Kusumura.8642:

Bathos.6341:

what kind of autoattack could you do with a shield? Throwing it Captain America style? That’d just look stupid in gw2.

Engineers would like a word with you.

Good point.

I share the opinion of some here that this will not serve to punish blobbing or zerging, but instead makes it overpowered. All they need now is endless CC and pure zerk and they will kill anything you can throw at them.

As others have said… PPT is pointless because it only gives a measure of the number of players that fight on the servers. Server with most people or most coverage → guaranteed PPT winner.

People don’t care about things they don’t have an individual impact on. Fights however are the one thing I still play WvW for occasionally. The combat can still be thrilling and it’s a display of your individual skill if you are roaming. Zerging, not gonna talk about that.

One worry every WvW player has is profession balance. We all know numerous examples of certain classes and builds being near to invincible in WvW (right now or long ago), and nobody who played other classes really liked that.

When Arenanet (next to revenant) throws in specialisations for all the existing classes… what’s to stop them from making them much better than existing classes, so everyone will be forced to buy the expansion just to experience a semi-balanced experience?

Tbh, my hits are really low on thief too, even running full zerk (traits on full damage). I can say truthfully that my thief hits less than my warrior and my warrior has 10k health and nearly 1k toughness more than my thief.

Would like to hear if anyone knows how to make it viable.

Ew what the OP says really sounds so bad.

I mean… I hate PvE most, EotM second most, I hate Skyhammer third most.

This kinda sounds like the worst map to play in for a PvP player in the whole of GW2.

WvW is no option for uplevels. Yes, arenanet’s decision to make level differences in WvW was pointless.

Asura master race, hands down.

Kane. [OP] likes you, except Nayia, he still hates you. xD

Edit: answer is obvious… if you want wvw completion that bad, you gonna have to come get it. Get some friends together and go for the cap (this is fow bish!)

Hey all

I got a carrion ascended chest in Wvw recently, but I have no clue what to pick as weapon.

I have a guardian, mesmer, thief, ele, warrior, engineer.

Only got a condition build currently on engineer and warrior.
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Thanks in advance!

Michael Henninger.7451:

Here’s my toon:
!http://i.imgur.com/TTVHVaB.jpg!

Questions?

Mhmm… looks like even the devs can’t get enough norn females with skimpy outfits.
Well, carry on.

CONFIRMED: HARPY NEW PLAYABLE RACE.

/sarcasm off

Varrg.2704:

wow, people actually defend the abominable RNG in this game. I guess you drones will eat anything.

My thoughts exactly. RNG is horrible, at least give us a “If you do this X times and don’t receive the rare item, you receive this item.”

RNG “alone” should never have been in this game. What we need is a progress system that rewards people for doing the activity. Like each time you kill Tequatl your progress bar would go up until you reach the minimum and you get to pick (sort of like the achievement point reward system).

Gibson.4036:

As cool as the game is, part of what’s so interesting about this thread is seeing how different locations can look with different computers/settings.

Haha true.

Just to throw the OP a bone…

I played this game since launch (on and off) and I find that a lot of the stat combinations are either sub-optimal or downright abysmal:

Optimal:

• Berserker: all round good for every kind of activity
• Knight: tankier version of berserker, still very good
• Celestial: another all-rounder, useful because more stat points compared to other set-ups
• Dire: probably the best condition build
• Rabid: 2nd best condition build (in my opinion)
• Sentinel: if you’re a WvW commander, else it’s bad

Sub-optimal:

• Soldier: cause berserker has more damage, and the extra vitality and toughness don’t really change a lot in most PvP situations, and are useless in PvE. Good for people who suck at their class, i.e. noobs.
• Valkyrie: vitality is a no-go for most classes because warrior, necro, ranger, engi, mesmer base HP are quite good; classes that have lower vitality still can use it such as guard, ele, thief (though the latter are better off with either celestial and berserk)
• Carrion: while not as good as dire or rabid (power on a condition build isn’t optimal), it’s still possible to run this “ok”.
• Settler: an “ok” condition stat for people who like healing, worse than the ones above though. I never use this without switching some dire or rabid in.

Abysmal:

• Every possible other stat combo

Ballads.2509:

Sirendor.1394:

Coyote.7031:

Svarty.8019:

NOT an issue, PLEASE work on
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instead.

Better rewards would draw in more players.

Yes, and no. If better rewards draw in more players, they will draw in more players on every server so that the population imbalance would probably not change a lot.

except the more active wvw are already qued.

Good point, but I assume most other servers aren’t.

Most expensive I bought must be 30g. Those are rare though..

Coyote.7031:

Svarty.8019:

NOT an issue, PLEASE work on
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instead.

Better rewards would draw in more players.

Yes, and no. If better rewards draw in more players, they will draw in more players on every server so that the population imbalance would probably not change a lot.

Sorel.4870:

Sirendor.1394:

SOoo… no more standing against a blob as a 5-man group? This is a bad change, because 30 people will strip a small group of their stability in no time, and they can’t even retaliate against all their attackers at the same time because of the AOE cap…

good job anet, good job

Hello. Please take the time to read the thread before posting your (certainly valid) opinion. There were several people expressing the same concern you do, and people replying. I think it would be more constructive to bring arguments to support your statement: your post typically looks like a conversation opener, while this thread is four-page long already. Thank you.

While I applaud your concern for a lively and constructive discussion, I didn’t have any explicit wish to join the discussion and react on what other people posted. I was just throwing in my thoughts, in support of anyone who is voicing similar concern.
Excuse me if this was unclear. Feel free to carry on, by all means!

GvG means nothing, because there are no obvious advantages for guilds.
PPT means less than nothing, because… who cares? more coverage = more ppt

ergo: wvw is meaningless unless you are there for having a good time

SOoo… no more standing against a blob as a 5-man group? This is a bad change, because 30 people will strip a small group of their stability in no time, and they can’t even retaliate against all their attackers at the same time because of the AOE cap…

good job anet, good job

Mhmm I would guess it’s somewhere in the sylvari area. Keep looking. The journey is more important than the goal!

[[Awesome activity by the way!]]

Arrow.4619:

There are two kinds of people: Those who think there are two kinds of people and everyone else.

;D

oscuro.9720:

Edit: NO ZERKER!!! Zerk builds are only for PvE. I didn’t have time to look at your builds because my phone is wierd with links, but never have any zerker.
Also, AoE Condi cleanse is very, VERY important when fighting 5v5!!!

I beg your pardon? The meta wvw havoc players and roamers run roughly five stat set-ups, sometimes mixed: zerk, knight, cele, dire, rabid.

Berserker is a must for basically every group if you have a thief, a warrior, a mesmer or a guardian. I personally run berserker on each of those classes with great success. I don’t lose 5v3 like OP, to the contrary… the glorious times of 3v10 will always stay in my mind. ;D

Doesn’t random mean… random? The match-ups seem pretty darn random to me. We might mean something else by that tho

Inbe4 ….

QUADRUPLE-TEAMED!!1!1!!!111!
NEEEERF

Zackie.8923:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

Marmatt, your stats and post history are the problem!

A lot of players here will have 5000+ hours, rank 1700+, 14k+ AP, and over 125k+ kills! And over 12 pages of posts in their forums profile section, where almost all of their posts are in the WvW Discussions section!

Someone who really represents the WvW community will have at least 1 banned account, and a second which lots of infractions and temporary suspensions, and a third account ready for when their 2nd is also banned. Why? Because these people are willing to argue with the mods and devs and are not afraid to put their honest opinions forward, even if they are opinions anet does not like!

ahahahahaha, 1 banned 2nd infracted 3rd standby lololol

They stopped infracting me. :/ Not sure if they are still trying to force their truth down our throats, seems more like they are ignoring whatever we say.

I think the message OP is looking for is…. “wvw is broken, fix it”. Not much else to say.

Does Marmatt have a … invisibility ring?

Hmm sounds like Legacy of the Foefire + League of Legends. I don’t know if it will be good or not. It doesn’t really sound like GvG but it does remind me of Fort Aspenwood/Jade Quarry.

morrolan.9608:

uberkingkong.8041:

IF ESO does go F2P, I’ll most likely be one of those people that change games.
Very big fan of Elder Scrolls.

They have announced it will be buy to play from 17 March 2015 ie no sub required.

Ooo awesome.

Thanks for the effort to write up, but here’s a link to quick build editors.

http://www.gw2skills.net/editor

http://intothemists.com/calc/

Dr II Evil.9326:

HoT is following the expansion philosophy of the GW1 expansions. Paid moderate content up front followed by additional rounds of free content. The cycle then repeats for the next expansion.

Well we don’t know the price/content ratio. If they charge $50 for an expansion with 1/10 of the original game… i’m gonna pass.

Hey I know this is early, but what about we can choose what parts of the expansion we buy?

Example, you are a WvW player and just want access to the WvW map and nothing else

Is it possible to buy these features seperately, without having to buy other (PvE/SPvP) content you might not even play? Would be great if this was an option.

Ardenwolfe.8590:

Back in my day, you had to farm mobs to get loot! Nowadays, you log in and they just give loot away. Lazy Millennials.

Is that another argument of:
- Things have always been kittenty
- Ergo, they should always stay kittenty

Yeah no.

Tom Gore.4035:

Sirendor.1394:

Tom Gore.4035:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

OK a question, will we have to buy the expansion to play on the new WvW map???

You have alienated too many players over the last 2 years, if so then less players will come back to the game…

We don’t know, but I think it is safe to assume you need the expansion to be able to enter the new WvW map. After all, Anet will want to dip into the WvW players’ pockets, too.

Lol this will ruin any balance there currently is… imagine a WvW map that you can’t even defend because there are more people who bought the expansion on another server… totally OP.

You seriously think there will be a big relative difference between servers in the ratio of “bought/non-bought”?

No, that was a joke. :P

What I do think though: existing population differences will result in extra problems for getting enough people on all maps with a new map added. In some servers it’s barely possible to man all different maps at the same time (in FoW I have literally been alone on maps, not during prime but still at regular EU times).

Tom Gore.4035:

Pinkamena Diane Pie.8054:

OK a question, will we have to buy the expansion to play on the new WvW map???

You have alienated too many players over the last 2 years, if so then less players will come back to the game…

We don’t know, but I think it is safe to assume you need the expansion to be able to enter the new WvW map. After all, Anet will want to dip into the WvW players’ pockets, too.

Lol this will ruin any balance there currently is… imagine a WvW map that you can’t even defend because there are more people who bought the expansion on another server… totally OP.