Guild Wars 2

i like the new changes, you dont have to worry about being interrupted between the deply and overcharge like you used to. Now just deploy, wait a couple seconds then blast. Good change here.

Juba.8406:

Well i just took a short walk in WvW.

Throw Axe was hitting for 4k, Auto Attacks hitting for 3k each hit, its like a far improved mobile 100b, then add quickness …… holy kitten.. enemies falling left and right.

quickness from off hand axe or just from berserk mode?

ill probably play symbolic build….need to see for myself tho when i login.

RIP

for 15 char i will say RIP again

yeah weve been asking for resistance for ages, this is a good fix…with some boon duration gear and sigil of concentration you can get 2.5 sec no prob.

Crinn.7864:

coro.3176:

It’s just bad gameplay.

Warrior approaching. You’re out of dodges, but they don’t have stability, so you use your big cc move to keep them away.
.. BUT WAIT! Last Stand procs and your cc does nothing. Headbutt. Arc Divider. You’re dead. Such skill. You can’t tell by looking at their status bar. Clearly you should have been watching the warrior constantly from the start of the game, then counting 40 seconds in your head for the ICD, assuming you even knew they were running that trait in the first place.. I mean. obviously.

Very few warriors use Last Stand. It’s the worst of the three defense GM traits.

Agreed. Last Stand is so “bad” relative to the other choices that its included in one of Boots Bad Builds. lol

its ok but i personally use Endure Pain instead of Signet of Stamina. And take Defy Pain instead of Armored attack. Then add a sigil of cleansing on one of your weapons. Use Lemongrass food and you’re good to go. Works well in zergs and solo roaming. Against power and condi.

Honestly if you’re planning for zerg fights you dont even need that much power. You want to avoid being a rallybot and thats why defy pain trait and endure pain helps better.

Regarding arrow carts

“September 17, 2012 This boon no longer reflects damage received from siege weapons.”

kappa.2036:

Core warrior is fine but Berserker is basically a warrior on steroids.

Every class’s elite is that class’s core on steroids.

coro.3176:

I don’t know. I have spared low levels before. I’ll usually kill them once, then down them if they come back, but won’t stomp them.

If new WvW players just get ganked and 100-0’d every time they set foot outside spawn, they won’t have a good time and wvw population will suffer even more.

To be fair someone should tell Non level 80s that WvW is probably not a safe place for them to be. I personally never look to see what level they are….“Red means Dead” unless i see them duelling or if its already like 3v1 or something.

i think given human nature as it is i doubt that would happen. What ANET could do is provide incremental buffs (more than the current outnumbered stuff) to the weakest server (tied to how many structures they own). This could be in the same way like bloodlust where you get stat bonuses. These would make individuals stronger and able to fight back better.

As they start taking structures back the buffs would go away.

all passives (activate X at 50% HP etc , or activate Y when stunned etc) should be removed from the game. Its pure casual player crutches that makes everyone look better than they are.

apharma.3741:

I don’t agree with nerfing the duration of adrenal healing as it hurts core warrior which adrenal healing is much more balanced on as well as possibly making it worthless on new specialisations. When a specialisation is what’s too strong with something you should reduce the specialisation not reduce the core function (unless multiple specialisations are an issue) as we rapidly end up at a balance point where traits and utilities are garbage except with 1 build.

fair point.

Choppy.4183:

1. Increase the CD on Headbutt by 5-10s (start with 5s)
2. Decrease the power scaling on Headbutt (from 3x to 2x)
3. Decrease the range of Arc Divider (from 450 to 150-180)
4. Count primal bursts as 1 bar of adren rather than 3

I think Arc Divider range reduction to 150-180 is excessive drop. If you are also considering other nerfs i think 240 is a good start.

Also not sure i agree with the Primal burst counting as 1 bar. I mean do we really want to make condition cleansing even harder than it is right now with all the condi cancer in wvw? Maybe make it count as 1 bar for Adrenal Health purposes?

I’d rather they made Adrenal Health last 10 sec instead of 15sec, This combined with Arc Divider range nerf would make landing the Burst even harder and more important and will punish you for missing it. Right now with 15s you can miss your burst several times and still keep 100% uptime.

my WvW roaming improved a lot when i went into sPvP and did a ton of matches. Just getting into a lot of fights with diff classes plus duelling servers helps a lot when you come across them in WvW. When i first started WvW i found that i wasnt getting enough skillful fighting experience due to the amount of ganking and zergs running around.

By playing 5v5 sPvP i got to do a lot of “small scale” fighting. It improved my WvW fighting ability a lot.

babyleo.4097:

hello,

does anyone know what is 20/30/0/10/10 build? seem many warrior talk about the build, what is it?

thank you.

It means you are looking at information that is almost 2 years old and obsolete.

The great thing about the interweb is that all these posts will be here for review once the the expansion is released and we will see who was over reacting or who was naive.

However, i work with probability on a daily basis at work and looking at ANETs recorded track record and the pure needs of business where they want to make sales, i would be extremely shocked if rifle on thief is not initially over powered enough for it to create a lot of QQ threads.

And yes im willing to have this saved on the interweb for future review.

HeadCrowned.6834:

Entenkommando.5208:

You don’t visit wvw forums very often do you? You get a new thread of this kind hourly over there, so we started expanding

No, I never do :P But come and join sPvP, we can use more players there. Wouldn’t hurt if WvW is that bad. :P

WvW has better gear flexibility, use of food and utility buffs instead of the kid friendly PvP Amulet system. If ANET spent half the time on WvW that it does on sPvP, then WvW could actually be great. Sadly it feels like they have a (non)progress meeting on WvW once every 3 months on a Friday at 5pm when everyone is clock watching.

All i know is that Thieves annoy the kitten out of me in WvW as it is when im playing double melee war. Ok they cant kill me because i can take the initial burst and can try to hit them back. If rifle even has medium damage it will be a royal pain .

Knowing ANET;s track record I’m pretty confident it will do very decent damage so yeah you could say we are overreacting but i think we will be proved right in the end.

anduriell.6280:

rifle thief will get just one dodge instead the 3 from DD. Probably most skills will have a long casting.
That spec it is meant to static long range massive damage type they say. Which i think is fine as long as they are not like rifle warrior: 3k damage every second + bursts + insane immunities and regen.

Every class has access to TWO dodges why do you say non daredevil thief will have only ONE?

Caedmon.6798:

Spartacus.3192:

as someone who gets the occasional salty whisper i dont know how its done. I have some friends on other servers and when we are both in WvW i cant whisper them via my friends list. How do you actually do it?

Block him,than look into your block list..click on him to whisper and click unblock again.

Thanks….is there a way to whisper someone who is on a diff server but on your friends list?

Sirbeaumerdier.3740:

Spartacus.3192:

Rifle on thief might actually make me dust off my thief that i barely touch and troll WvW so hard. I will abuse that million mile range insta burst till it gets its eventual nerf.

Told you…

I personally never play Thief in wvw (i usually play War/DH/Druid) but i fear that i’m going to get so frustrated with getting killed by stealth rifle thieves that i want to be one to help increase the forum QQ so that it gets nerfed asap. Assuming its goint to be OP of course. Weird logic but i dont care.

as someone who gets the occasional salty whisper i dont know how its done. I have some friends on other servers and when we are both in WvW i cant whisper them via my friends list. How do you actually do it?

Rifle on thief might actually make me dust off my thief that i barely touch and troll WvW so hard. I will abuse that million mile range insta burst till it gets its eventual nerf.

only need one word. “STALE”

vier.1327:

WvW is the child left behind.

The pvp has been enjoying of the Anet attention since HoT. The Skyhammer rework, Battle of Kyhlo rework, Coliseum, pirate map, 6 seasons, a legendary back item…

So… we have to believe that Anet will ignore pvp… yes… and the earth is flat and the char does not smell like a wet dog.

haha agreed. If PvP is the child left behind, then WvW is the child that was dumped at the local police station a couple hours after birth.

Glad is a very good roamer and i love watching his stream. Note that he has blood lust sigil so thats 250 extra power there with full stacks. Also he is very skilled at landing the stun followed by Hundred Blades combo to utilise the Sigil of Impact. I actually copied that build to test but im not as good as he is and couldnt utilise the sigil of impact effectively enough.

Plus im not a fan of bloodlust stacks on melee classes (I like it on my DH Longbow).

TL;DR if you are not good at landing Skull Crack/Shield Bash into Hundred blades often enough along with maintaining full bloodlust stacks then this build will feel weak. If you can you will hit like a truck.

My warrior will be using Destruction of the Empowered a lot more i guess.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Empowered

zinkz.7045:

Lucentfir.7430:

hardcore group content…

Thanks for the laugh, a game where people have taken down numerous raid bosses for 10 man groups with groups of 4-6, and someone even soloed one, GW2 raids are about as hardcore as My Little Pony.

Have to admit i laughed at this one.

By the way. A question about Durability. As much as i love having them (I have a marauder set with Dura runes) i cant help but feel that they are not fully utilized when roaming solo. They are no doubt strong when in a small party because the boons are shared but when solo that sharing is wasted.

Ive had pretty good success running Melandru or Hoelbrak when solo. These two runes coupled with Lemongrass food (like the old days) is still very strong vs all the condi roamers out there. Has anyone else tried different runes for solo/disorganised roaming?

Dawdler.8521:

Spartacus.3192:

i was running around solo monday evening T2 and flipped 3 camps in 3 diff corners of the alpine borderlands and didnt come across a single enemy player. (NA Eastern time zone)

WvW is dying, panic, paaaaaaaaaaaaanic!!!!

Or it could be fact its mid week, one server has probably won already and Living Story releases drop the WvW population by 50%+ for like a week.

I didnt say it was dying, i was making an observation. Also if you read my post it was MONDAY evening not midweek.

i was running around solo monday evening T2 and flipped 3 camps in 3 diff corners of the alpine borderlands and didnt come across a single enemy player. (NA Eastern time zone)

my druid has 100% boon duration in combat already so i dont know the real impact. I mean sigil of concentration is in my opinion probably the most OP rune you can get.

Season 6 was the first season i played ZERO Ranked matches. I play PvP predominantly for fun and partly for the fast reward track progression. Apart from the super easy ascended gear in Season 5 i didnt really enjoy ranked that much (mostly due to match making related and AFK’er etc). So when ANET reduced the rewards i decided to just chill and play unranked occasionally and spend the majority of my time in WvW where i actually really enjoy roaming and duelling.

Its a pity because i really liked the excitement and challenge of pvp before leagues were introduced and when the majority of pvp players played for the fun of it.

Buran.3796:

SeranusGaming.7362:

how exactly do you get those durability runes?

A seller in the center of the Tarir map is the cheapest way to get them, if I recall correctly.

Vendor in Auric Basin (fogotton city waypoint) with Aurillium currency or from the Provisions Master in WvW using WvW currency.

Ragnarox.9601:

Warrior is OP and needs to be toned down by 100%. And after that conditions need to be toned down by 50%.

I assume you mean condi war needs to be toned down because saying Warrior in general needs to be toned down because someone kills a Fractal last boss with full condi spec is just plain silly logic.

I like the idea however i still feel ANET should allow us to choose from the existing ones but for Weapons/Armor and Accessories.

That way we can “blend” some stats. For example taking Zerker Weapons, Knights Armor and Marauder Accessories.

Proving yet again how overpowered condis are in this game.

having 3771 armor and still wreck a fractal 100 last boss.

Fay.2357:

The problem with the sigil is that it’s only excellent if you’re already destroying the other group. When you’re getting a lot of kills, you don’t need a lot of dodges. On the other hand, when you’re not getting kills you usually need a lot of dodges. So the sigil works great when it’s useless and it doesn’t work at all when you really need it.

^ This… Same is true for all “On-Kill” sigils. Its great when you are already destroying the enemy and almost useless when you’re being pressured.

Crinn.7864:

Also I’m pretty sure most raid bosses are harder than blobbing

You know there are a lot of WvW’ers who roam and not blob right?

Hi at what level is ferocity worth more than precision. Im asking this in relation to pvp/wvw. Not PVE where you can calculate average DPS qute easily.

In Pvp/Wvw burst damage in a quick rotation is worth more than average DPS vs a lord for example.

What ive noticed is that when you do your typical rotation of popping berserk and using say Arc Divider 100 blades and Whirlwind etc etc Then you already have fury from berserk mode and so you will generally be critting a lot. So ferocity is good to max the damage.

So basically for all you wvw/pvp players whats your min crit chance you like to have (before fury) before you start stacking ferocity?

Thanks

Yannir.4132:

But tbh, Dragon’s Maw could use a nerf(PvP only).
Reduce the barriers duration to 3s and cut the damage by 20%.

People still get caught by Dragon’s Maw? smh

I stopped using it almost a year ago when most people learned how to avoid it.

no regrets at all….if i want some social action i go unranked and get a 5 man team going or whatever.

wardspratlin.9107:

it wouldnt matter if team que had better rewards or not…. you pick your teammates in that….so no matter the motivation you would just end up playing against these people which is fine lol

You’re missing my point. sPvP has been in decline since Season ONE. We had Team Q then. It didnt help bring people in. The game mode was losing players every season.

Im just pointing out that blaming the death of PvP on Solo/Duo Q is not accurate.

wardspratlin.9107:

It is very clear Spvp is in the sharp decline and it all happened when we changed to this duo/solo que… its just not working to keep players interested…sure it gives better matchmaking in terms of fair play…but lets be real here playing with friends is the reason we play a MMO so please lets get back to the basics here before pvp is completely dead!

Thats not the reason why pvp is in decline. Its been in decline since Season 1 and we had team q back then . Solo/Duo brought fairer matches for pug players.

S5 “appeared” successful due to the easy rewards. Anet took away the ease of the rewards in S6 so people dont care enough.

Ideal world there should be a solo q and a 5 man team q but there are simply not enough players.

Caedmon.6798:

OriOri.8724:

Spartacus.3192:

if i had a dollar for every time soneone who mains another class and posts on a forum about how they just copy pasted a build on another class and wrecked everyone id be very rich now.

I am not saying warrior isnt strong but ive seen this type of post way too often.

Don’t you think that says something about how poorly class skill level is balanced though? The fact that someone can pick up an entirely new class and copy a build someone else made, without understanding it, and still perform better than on their main?

I can say i picked up an ele now and wrecked everyone with it eventhough its my first time playing,but you just have to take my word for it right.

^ This

My point was ive seen players who mained warrior and go on ranger forum and say they wrecked people after playing only a few matches copy pasting metabattle etc. Same with people who say they mained thief and then logged onto a DH and surprise surprise they were wrecking people esp thieves. I personally a couple seasons ago decided to try Scrapper and was amazed at how much survivability i had when i had only a dozen matches under my belt. I literally coudnt die. (of course Scrapper has been nerfed a lot since).

And as Caedmon says there as also been a ton of people who just want the alt class to be nerfed and so they will just post on the forums about how they facerolled. people.

Show us your Warrior matches you have ever played and record a few ranked matches and show us the stats. Otherwise it means nothing, In fact post your API link for pvp. prove it.

if i had a dollar for every time soneone who mains another class and posts on a forum about how they just copy pasted a build on another class and wrecked everyone id be very rich now.

I am not saying warrior isnt strong but ive seen this type of post way too often.

iKeostuKen.2738:

WvW is basically follow the leader and spam all your aoe and cleanses as much as possible while running in a zerg.

PvP just sucks beyond belief. Its actually the worst it has ever been, the esport being shut down supports this. Useless builds, slow balance patches, low build diversity, buggy movements (will randomly get stuck on nothing), Projectile issues (Many times projectiles will go out of range when your upclose to players), Burst builds that can negate a lot of damage (while still fighting back).

I dont think this can compare to WoW at all.

There is more to WvW that following a tag as a mindless zergling. Personally i roam either in a duo or upto 5-6 players. We move around to where fights are and take on group quite a bit bigger than ourselves. A lot of fun actually.

PvP i cant tell you how Season 6 is because ive not played any ranked matches this season. Only unranked matches. Most of my time is in WvW this season.

OriOri.8724:

Personally, gearwise for WvW, I really want to see Anet normalize WvW with PvP. Any stat combination that is not available in PvP should not be available in WvW either. Similarly, any rune or sigil that is removed from PvP should be removed from WvW, with few to no exceptions. I’ll leave the logistics of how this should happen up to Anet, but I do think its something that should happen soon.

The absolute worst part of sPvP is the limited gear choices via amulets and the limited gear types. If they made WvW be like PvP id have literally nothing to play for.

Now also if they made wvw/pvp/pve be truly independantly balanced then maybe just maybe it would be ok

problem is people already complain about how strong 100b is. The weakness to 100b is that enemy needs to either get stunned so you can complete the channel or they have to be stupid enough to stand still. If we could move while using 100b it would be OP and would need a damage nerf.