Guild Wars 2

Power engi also requires the enemy to sit in napalm/acid bomb, since you blast acid bomb into the napalm. Few places power is > condi: molten facility for destroying the core, destroying doors in thaumanova, any mobs you plan on bursting down, legendary dredge suit/ice elemental in dredge fractal. Power also relies more on group buffs, condi gets ~90% of its damage from just might and stats. If your party is bad, as long as you get might you’ll be performing close to optimal with solid rotations. The threshold for condi > power is ~14secs, if you’re pugging condi will pretty much always have better damage on bosses.

Condi also has much better soft cc, on bosses like archdiviner a well played engi functions like a guard tanking but with none of the threat of death from a missed aegis.

You should check out gw2dungeons.net it has answers to probably most of your questions.

Shield skills cause reflection instead of blocking? 4sec moving reflection bubble, and shield 4 would function like ft3 on an engi creating a 1/4 window where you can reflect specific attacks.

You can take energy sigils or vigor, with save yourselves you really shouldn’t need both. Shelter blocks all 4 ticks of his single target lifedrain, you can use it to both heal and prevent lots of damage.

I think that AAR is not scaling with multipliers besides vuln, whereas the other skills are.

Another thing to note, weapon kits have their own weapon strengths separate from your wielded weapon, the tooltip is listing the damage based on your current weapon strength which is the drop you see in the tooltip while having a kit equipped. Equip a pistol vs. rifle with and without a kit to see how it’s changing.

Keksmuffin.1450:

Instead of staff you could just use gs and burst the locusts away when they become annoying without dropping to abyssmal dps on lupi. Also you don’t need to slot any stunbreaks if you just trait for stability on f3. Apart from that I personally would use Retreat over SotA since I think it’s a lot more reliable but I guess they both work.

Also I probably wouldn’t have uploaded a video where I tank kicks and grubs but that’s just me. :<

I was expecting to need to get every modifier I could and I wanted the on the move symbol from staff. SoA was there for the extra target + random aegis for unscathed. I thought it would require much more effort to pull off, I haven’t used a one shot in months and never in a solo.

This was far easier than I expected, I completely forgot I went out and bought the mob consumables to spawn them when he phased. And scepter sucks balls here, you lose at least 1/3 of smite to invuln locusts and autoattacks + radiant flame throws. I’m pretty sure I could have dropped save yourselves for stand your ground and saved myself the annoyance of failing to time the stun break.

I think spoj has one sitting at the top of the necro forums in a sticky, though it will get an overhaul with the expansion releasing reaper.

Jerus.4350:

I wonder what will happen to Mai Trin if I can’t cripple/chill her not fun ANet, not fun.

Speed boost, walk sideways.

Jerus.4350:

After the change you have the potential to spam ~25-27k gravediggers every ~2s. That alone should have them right about middle of the pack when you add in the extras.

Which would put you at 12.5-13.5k dps :P unless the aftercast is reduced on the first auto so you can slip in an extra hit between digging. And then you have the lower damage from the above 50% rotation which reduces the average damage, though her assumption was that half the fight is below half, which overestimates the contribution of the below 50% rotation. As it is necro is kind of clinging to the bottom of the pack rather than sitting next to everyone else, if I decide to purchase before the beta this weekend I can fiddle with her rotation. At most I’d expect it to come out on par with the bottom classes, but less utility(poison cloud was a nice step up from almost nothing).

spoj.9672:

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When I talked to keyz the average between above and below 50% dmg on necro with reaper was putting it almost on par with the other lower dps classes. If the aftercast times can get reduced by fractions on some of the skills it can probably end up in line, but it’s inability to provide strong group buffs and comparable damage may still limit it.

It’s damage increase from VA doesn’t really compare to fury/might/banners/spotter/frost spirit/alacrity/quickness, and the sustain from it on a single target requires more than 3 hits/sec to compare to a warrior picking up discipline for regen.

Bukkebruse.2810:

IE never

Old content is having basic break bars being put in with HoT.

Iris Ng.9845:

The longer the duration of the CC, the faster the breakbar will get consumed. Also the breakbar is only available at a certain time, like right before a big attack. So it depends on how fast you can pull off your CC. Thief is still great with Basilisk Venom + Headshot.

This will be confusing when the bars get released, does a 3sec stun take off twice as much as a 1.5 sec? What about a 3sec daze? or a 6sec chill? 6 sec cripple? immobilize? is a 750 knockback twice as much as a 375, how does a knockback compare to a pull, daze, fear?

Can you be more descriptive of the bug/patch/fix/thing you are encountering?

Condi Engi is ~4k ahead of thief, you really have to kitten up the rotation to fall down to thief level, they’re about 25 % ahead And they can have much better in-fight might upkeep with a 6sec blast finisher and better group heals.

The gyros would need to be damageable when they left the engineer, a stomp without counterplay is too strong.

You could have the gyros equivalent to hp, each 25% is a gyro, as you break down the engineer their gyros break as well; either the gyros function as a passive damage reduction absorbing some damage that would harm the engineer or it has a separate hp bar and can pick up heals from the engineer if there aren’t allies taking priority or it doesn’t have an hp bar until it leaves the engineer.

Maybe the character limit for lfg ads will be too short to type that all out

scepter/torch for damage, especially if you take the radiant fire trait for extra torch throws. focus + mace is great for block rotations on bosses. staff has some very niche uses(molten facility tunnel), it’s good to have 1, but avoid using it in combat.

Explosives is still interacting the exact same as a month ago when I tested it, I have no idea what was changed. Link to post from a page back https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Engineer-Bugs-Updated-Consolidated/page/7#post5406059.

Gav.1425:

Purple Miku.7032:

Only time I bought the potions with tokens was when I hit above 70k tokens, because I wanted to take a 69,666 picture.

70000/60=1166 dungeon runs.

what.

It’s much higher, chances are he ran multiple paths in the same day just cause, or because he wanted to set a new time.

stambogalizi.8356:

Alright , you need to understand that ele and warrior have been nerfed. Particularly PS was nerfed with the spec patch and ele will be hit kitten tuesday and was hit even harder when fgs was gone. But they’re still here.
I don’t see how dragging everyone down to the same kitten tier level is good balance

You don’t have to give ranger the capability to stack 25 might, you just have to buff his spotter and frost spirit so that he might actually see more play.

PS wasn’t really nerfed with the spec patch, it gained a lot of personal dmg and lost a bit of boon duration, but the runes/food you’d take to make up the lost duration didn’t drop your personal damage by the same amount, PS war got better with spec patch. Ele will still be great tuesday, the problem will be that one of their unique group buffs has lost half(maybe a bit less) of its use, and for a class like thief that really benefited from it, it maybe better to just slot in extra engineers instead because they don’t have the extra source of coefficients to bring their damage closer to the other classes.

Spirits need to stop dying left right and centre, afterwards they’d be pretty useful.

I can do trios and 5man fractals as a full zerker guardian with no downs, it’s practice and low ping really, as long as you know what and when to block/blind/reflect, you’re good to go. You can swap on some celestial trinkets if you want to get better aggro control with a little bit more survival.

frifox.5283:

What if… the dungeon mobs actually attacked and moved around at the same time?

It would be cool, but right now movement for them counts as a skill use, daze functions like a stun.

Lily.1935:

I can make type really well. I memorized were all the buttons are. I can do It without looking at it at all. Its a skill I have but not a very impressive skill at all. A chimpanzee can do the exact same thing. In fact, I’d be willing to bet that a chimpanzee would be better at the rotation than the top players of GW2 if it was trained. I’d put money on that.

Excellent, staff ele rotation is 2, 5, 111,2, 111, etc.. Please go do some dungeons and fractals in low man or 5 man situations and stay to that rotation perfectly, you can even go lightning storm, lava font, MS, ice spike, ice storm, ice spike, eruption, lava font if you’d like extra mid fight burst. Tell me how good you are at pushing 3-9 buttons, definitely far less than the 26 letters, 10 numbers and other keys on your keyboard. Should take you you less than a 10th of the time to learn and master, right?

Best guesstimate, d/w(or focus) + gs, spite, blood magic, reaper, pick up the relevant multipliers/party buffs and personal buffs, valk gear with wurm runes, pop offhand life force skill, swap to GS, burst skills then go into reaper and use burst skills, AA for a couple secs until you can drop out, hit with grave digger, go back to dagger until you get locust swarm/reaper’s touch back.

And yet it’s still rather subpar, as in 6-7k less than ele subpar, sitting around thief dps with less blinds and only the VA & boon corruption allowing it to fill a slightly different niche. And really only VA, since chrono has excellent damage and easy boon strips.

Can we give a raid build? Yes. Will it be worth running over other classes? Welcome back to the never ending discussion at hand.

Plenty of people read the rotations on meta battle and can memorize them, the people killing bosses in 11-14secs in dungeons are the ones able to perform those rotations consistently regardless of the circumstances. It is a much higher skill ceiling than you imagine it to be. There’s a reason pug groups with meta builds can’t phase the 2nd archdiviner in ~12 seconds, and it’s not just the lack of communication.

Ehm, you need to check your meta build. MS cd is 20secs, you could call it a 21 sec rotation if you wanted to add that you lava font before the meteor shower. Sustained damage doesn’t have this mysterious 30second threshold, it just means it’s a repeatable rotation for all skills included. A burst ele rotation can include lightning storm, dragon’s tooth, lava font, pheonix/burning speed, meteor shower, ice storm, frost fan, deep freeze for tempest defense, eruption, ice spike, fiery whirl, fire storm, fireballs. The sustained rotation is just lava font, fireballs, MS.

Burst is dps, they aren’t 2 separate entities, you just have a shorter interval over which you’re calculating the damage.

Edit: Forgot to include attunement swapping in the burst possibilities, extra 20% multiplier during ice spike, ice storm and parts of lightning storm/MS/lava font depending on which element you start your rotation in.

Adding coefficients, multiplying in all the relevant multipliers and stats, dividing by armour. And spoj that’s on 2600 armour, which is very common, only fractal bosses and lupi/abom are really going above that.

This also assumes a small hitbox, and no icebow. 3 skills on a fully buffed ele produces 19k, and the rotation length is 20secs to match meteor shower. This does assume perfect might/vuln, then again, organized groups are very good at creating favourable circumstances.

And the thing to remember, an ele’s sustained dps and a necro’s are both going to drop by relatively similar amounts from the missing vuln/power. Perhaps ele’s slightly more since might makes up more of their total power than a necro who has a signet, or slightly less since they have a precision signet.

Elixir gun 4 goes a reduced distance while carrying orbs in spirit watch.

It’s like that post on how to tank properly all over again.

Burst dps =/= sustained dps, ele brings better burst and sustained than a zerker necro, and both are better than condi necro, let alone hybrid where you sacrifice stats from both forms of damage to try and find a middle point that together ends up weaker than specializing in pure damage

You do know DotA and LoL are mobas right?

You can only get reward tiers that you have the personal level for. Your 29 gave you your 19 chest for your level, everything after you can’t get because you already got the chest for 11-20 tier, and you don’t have the reward level to get the 21+ tiers.

Cat Has Ducks.1982:

What if your AR is your reward level and you need 1 to 1 reward level to fractal scale so you gain AR as you level through the scales.

Would be a cool way to not limit alts and we could work through fractals roleplaying and trying all the instabilities.

ft camping at aldus, he was dropping orbital strike into his napalm once in a while though

If an ele gets a 4% boost on say 15k, compared to a war at say base 12k getting 4%. The war needs to make up that 4% to themselves, but the boost the ele gets is 5%, relative to the warrior.

Quickness decreases cast time, if it’s the cooldown limiting the application quickness won’t help, and you need to be running in less than 5 man parties for buffs to not be given party member priority, so alacrity is out unless you’re willing to give up one of your team members. Might as well blast a smoke bomb in half the time and toss elixir s as you run.

Ele sustained is averaging around 19k dps, necro zerker is around 10k, condi necro is less. This is small hitboxes without icebow. Getting up to 8k bleed ticks isn’t bad, except they aren’t sustained, the max tick you reach on a condi doesn’t necessarily mean your dps is near that number as well.

Bribe dekeyz, 11/10 chance she has the goods you’re looking for.

Good thing you can make infusions with AR and stats -.-

Updated previous post, it was a normal mob critting me, elites in cm aren’t.

You start on axe mace for fights then go to GS so you can burst vuln on axe 2 mace 4 while the vuln on crits ramp up, unless you have a lightning storm then blade trail and fury signet.

If the mob is going to cause trouble, healing signet fury signet and bursting might onto your party with WW + hundred blades will help more than waiting for an axe 5 to finish.

Skill use strips the bubble, if you have enough damage against the ads, just use fast casting skills and save your cds for after the enrage buff.

The biggest thing to remember about builds and encounters is, “It depends”. 5man is different from solo or 3man, some fights might require more dodges, some groups might handle defensive buffs better than others and allow you to bring more offensive builds, your willingness to spend money also comes into play with consumables/multiple gear sets and likewise your tactics must fit your ability/group’s ability. Taking an uncoordinated group against the priest of melandru in melee can be tough, using power block on the ancient ooze with players expecting to dodge back can cause problems, the best choice is not always possible so the question is, which sacrifices are worth it?

Wethospu.6437:

Fury would mess up the whole thing. I’m interested of the base chance.

Edit: Normal enemies seem to crit. So the question is, can elite enemies too?

Editted: Elites aren’t critting, was just a normal mob.

It’s like a pair of wings made from all of the tears you cried from watching someone else get a fractal tonic on their first try.

Work on testing out all of your classes skills, pay attention to the individual mechanics of bosses to learn the tells, and how those mechanics overlap with other bosses you encounter. Make good use of terrain and don’t be afraid to play tag around objects with bosses if you’re having trouble.

Anyone who wants to waste time fighting the first 2 bosses of arah p3 to lengthen the time it takes them to sell can do that, other people who want to skip half the path and sell it much faster can do that too. How well did that idea work out?

It depends. How high is your target’s toughness, what kind of buffs do you have on you, how many unique buffs do you have, what kind of consumables will you be using, what is your budget for crafting armour/weapons and acquiring upgrades, what is your ramp up time, what is the duration of the fight, what is your party composition, are you able to make full use of melee/range options in a given situation, what are your cast/aftercast times like, how often are you required to interrupt skills to survive, many other things I’m forgetting. If gravedigger is OP as it seems to be, zerker will probably better for the <50% spam.

Vikkela.7261:

Isn’t it still in current PvE dungeons where you stand in a stack? If anywhere then it’s in PvE you want your consecrations under your feet. Dunno where you drew your conclusions from

Stacking has been a mediocre choice since the fgs nerf. Most often you want to spread around bosses in a star shape. You’d actually want the skills targetted under the boss so your whole party would get the effects.

Turrets don’t scale with player stats. And they do suck in basically every game mode. Rifle turret has a tiny niche use in SD builds, and SD breaks skill queues just in case you didn’t like to break your keyboard.

Why bring a party when you can solo? Why solo when you can just pvp? Why play a game when you can play a board game? Why play dungeons and dragons when you can play monopoly, destroying friendships and burning all of your bridges behind you only to realize it’s already 5am and you have school the next morning and 3 group projects to complete together?

Hold your right mouse button and wiggle as you fight, you can keep him targetted and turn your body to hit other enemies, if you want to hundred blades a group of enemies you’ll probably need to untarget him though.