Guild Wars 2

2:56am EST and connection dropped. I had a rune of melandru selected as I was slotting it into my new armor and it is now nowhere to be found. I have an armor set with 5 melandru runes. Please help.

Paralda. #Magswag

My experience thus far has been that approximately 30% of my damage has disappeared. This is true for my warrior and guardian also.

Dee Jay.2460:

Conditions suck because they are the exact antithesis of what skillful combat in GW2 should be (and was originally intended) to be about.

Conditions relegate both damage-dealing and damage mitigation almost entirely to class mechanics rather than the “active combat” GW2 was designed around. Dodging becomes secondary when conditions attacks are barely distinguishable and poorly telegraphed.

Avoiding damage comes down to what removal options you have, not how well you move, dodge or play.

It’s the exact opposite of fun and engaging combat.

You can tell that originally Guild Wars 2 was never meant to have such an excessive amount of condition spam. Stuff like Signet of Agility that removes 1 condition on a 30 second cooldown is proof of that.

But things have changed, especially with Runes of Perplexity and Tormet now added to the game and the entire concept of “active combat” has become diluted to the point where winning a fight comes down to how many different types of conditions you can apply to your opponent vs. how many he can cleanse.

Dis. +1

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

it was about time that condition builds got a bit of a buff.

Why man.

Pawstruck.9708:

Full Berserker Warriors are dominating (and ruining) PVE at the moment. I’m sorry it feels bad to be nerfed (us Thieves were nerfed too), but it’s good for the health of the game.

Really who cares about pve? I mean, this long after the game if you’re still running the same dungeons over and over more power to you but should the other game modes be affected so much because people like to run zerker warriors in cof?

mango.9267:

If this is another “why are they nerfing crit dmg instead of condi” thread, Anet has already stated that their intent is to increase build diversity in PvE (away from full zerkers).

It’s already been beaten to death that this is bad for WvW (and probably bad for PvE too).

You’re right. But seriously who cares about pve this long into the gw2 release? I mean if you’re doing the same kittenty dungeons over and over good for you but I don’t think the real endgame – wvw – needs to be balanced around it. As it off weren’t bad enough that for the longest time wvw was held hostage by the PvP circle holding champions now it’s the pve carebears and their ways dictating balance.

Condi spam is out of control. Debuffs are just that – debuffs – and NOT nor should they EVER be the main damage source.

I can craft it for you.

But for real, just get your armorsmithing to 400 and do it yourself otherwise I smell a potential support ticket if you give it to someone.

http://maguuma.net/

Somone must know something. I do remember GOAT coming over with BURN from Bosliss. R.I.P.

Deserved nerfs. Pin down has always screamed for an animation, something that the more powerful warrior skills have usually had.

Wow anet brought the love to roaming guardians for sure on this patch. Other than the vigor nerf it’s significant buffs across the board. Especially LOVE the torch buff. Great condition cleanse and dps on one weapon. It seems to me that anet has been more on point with their patches and changes lately I’m liking it. But I don’t see the empowering might change staying as is it’s a wee bit op with no internal cd.

Idk why you think one build or one weapon set will be viable in all situations. What baffles me further is why you think guardians are the only profession that has to make builds according to what they’re doing be it pve or fractals or wvw zerging.

You’ll have a better chance prying a chocolate strudel from the grasp of Rosie O’Donnell than you’ll have getting me to contribute 1 copper to bring someone over to Maguuma from another server so I dont know what you’re talking about. But the irony of someome from SBI complaining about buying guilds is just bellissimo/wunderbar/chudesnyi etc etc…

Everyone wants to be redguard.

Hey king I hope anet responds to this. I feel a ‘commo rose’ from battlefield fame where holding down a key brings up a list of pre determined chat commands is sorely needed. Keep up the good fight though!

I got both my rewards. The day they come up with a system for minis would be nice though every time I have one it always gets deposited.

Sounds like you’re eating a cloak and dagger/backstab combo. What class are you?

These guys rock. If you’re the person who is up late at night and you’re not running with KH you’re doing something wrong!

You know I see the same idiotic crap posted in every forum. Always people insisting theirs is the only profession forum where people go to complain about one facet of that class or another. The other great myth being that anet hates said class more than the rest and how they consistently have been nerfing it since release etc etc etc.

Slightly off topic but do traveler runes 25% movement speed also count while in combat?

It’s hella good on a condition build.

[ADAA] American Dodgeball Association of America.

Anet: makes a collaborative development thread.

Closes forum.

Can someone make a scumbag Steve meme of this please?

Whoa I just read this. So no more wvw on the guild wars website? Wow. Just….wow. GG anet.

Aaroneous.6190:

Shadow step is the problem.

Nonsense.
/thread

My thief. Tyvm glory leveling…

My new look….

Cynz.9437:

run karma train

No.

Commisar.8695:

Is he still running PvT necro?

Dont mean to interject, but with all due respect the day I levelled my necro it was suggested to me to run ful pvt by a very good Ark player. I believe they were experimenting with full ptv/celestial trinkets at the time.

So ya.

yksdoris.2194:

ParaldaWind.4523:

yksdoris.2194:

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Open field fights are fun. PPT is boring.

This is not a complicated concept…

said the British Light Brigade at the battle of Balaclava. and charged straight into the firing line of cannons.

This is a video game. Get your head on straight man…

Art.9820:

We don’t zerg & we don’t care about ppt but here you are on a thursday night trying to flip everything like crazy, so who was the guys who named a few guilds & said they were the voice of Magumma? sorry dude my post got reported and deleted with yours anyways can you see what’s happening? this is hilarious.

Art.9820:

We don’t zerg & we don’t care about ppt but here you are on a thursday night trying to flip everything like crazy, so who was the guys who named a few guilds & said they were the voice of Magumma? sorry dude my post got reported and deleted with yours anyways can you see what’s happening? this is hilarious.

I like many have used their excess PvP glory to level a new toon. I have come over to the darkside and made a thief. Trying out a d/p-sb build with Valkyrie armour and berserker weapons and trinkets. Would love it if you all could direct me to famous thief youtubers who make guides. I asked the same thing when I levelled my necro and found iamlegioniamone who makes the best guides I have ever seen some of them being an hour long! He taught me much on how to gear and play the class and would love to learn some tips and tricks for the thief in a similar way. Also, I use runes of the worm as a placeholder.

Irony.5203:

The video has been up on our forums for a day longer than it has been here. The decision to post it here was pushed by the community as a whole.

Anyone else get the feeling that bg likes to think of themselves something along the lines of this???

congratulations on your transfers and coverage. Big achievement.

I have a mini dolyak.

!!!

Stances are extremely powerful abilities and their cool downs and lack of cd reduction traits indicate this. The meta has clearly shifted to shout/heal warriors though.

Kite out their Zerker stance. Then blind and/or dodge their cc. If you get caught use ds to absorb the damage. If you are condition specd keep up the poison as long as you can since most warriors run healing signet. They may have condi immunity BUT they are just as susceptible to conditions outside of it just life everyone else, especially to weakness and poison so a sceptre dagger setup is good.

My stance build is complete.

All pvt warriors and cleric guardians means you will NEVER have sufficient dps to deal with larger groups.
Perhaps 1 boon duration cleric guard but the rest of your heavies should bring the deeps. Also power well necros.

Commisar.8695:

God bless you meta.
Step 1: Go to the arena in obsidian sanctum.
Step 2: Choose which class you want to fight, PU mesmer, p/d d/p condispam/stealthspam thief, condi warrior with huge regen.
Step 3: If you lack any of the builds shown in Step 2, you can choose to fight one and die or return to step 1. If you have one of these builds, proceed to step 4.
Step 4: Have a lackluster fight that was determined on who’s build is a better counter to who’s rather than player skill because these builds are made to be mindless.

Lulz so true

Lots of overreacting on this thread. Two trait lines need work but three are probably the best in game IMO.

I was there for the gvg didn’t see any untoward behavior.

Why would you dodge cancel an invul skill?

Well did Duke get away or what?

jonnis.2946:

The “Blob” is not punished enough
While I already think the Blob is far from the most effective way to play the game, I do feel that there is not enough done to prevent it. I have very grand ideas about lots of little groups of 20 players running round taking keeps, groups of 10 focusing on towers, other groups focusing on the upgrading of keeps, from running Dolyaks and capturing camps to fortifying them with siege. This simply doesn’t happen, because the Blob is where the rewards are.

Bingo.

Unfortunately you’ll find no help on this front from Anet. They had a collaborative development thread up here some weeks back which I think yielded soem good debates.

That said they made it very clear that “we do not want to punish people for playing together”. By “together” they seem to think everyone on map clustered into a giant ball. They dont seem to grasp that there can still be a “together” in smaller groups. So I think your post will fall on deaf ears.

Have to admit it’s nice seeing Wagonisle get its just desserts. There is gonna be lots of kitten ed off there with all the stacking on a server with hopes of "winning’ silver league.

WoW has an upcoming expansion which will improve character models. I’ve seen many complaints about charr and asuras. Anet will hopefully do something about this in future.

Stillshade if you want top create a engineer only guild to theorycraft and help new players I’ll lend a hand. Also there are tons of very good engis on mag right now!

My friend it is a misconception that elixir gun skills are under elixir traits.

That is all.