Guild Wars 2

Arken.3725:

10 seconds. Says it in the tooltip.

oops sorry didnt notice that thanks

How long does the healing stat bonus last from Invogorated Bulwark from the Honor line? It just says “for a period of time”

Thanks

this was obviously a mistake. Shouts were always max 5 people (4 plus yourself). I stayed away from WvW because of this bug. If it hasnt been fixed already it will be very quickly.

i think with all these buffs to condi, pretty much every class will build for condi clears so i feel that a hybrid build is the way to go. Keep pressure on enemy with physical and condi damage.

Warriors with Brawlers Recovery (remove 1 condi every swap = 5 sec) plus cleansing ire and Dogged March makes them pretty good at condi clears.

LOL Altruistic Healing + Shouts in Zerg and you will be healing for 1k-2k per shout.

just thought pop Retreat, give everyone aegis + shattered aegis and you have mega bomb on demand

NumenorLord.6539:

It should get you to this page https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/external?l=http%3A%2F%2Fdulfy.net%2Fgw2traits%23build%3DAgICpAPoBWw that warns you that you are going to a site outside forums. Maybe copy and paste the link?
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Thanks!!!

How come when i click on these links it never works. Always a blank spec template

What set is best for hybrid guard, Carrion, Rampager or Sinister? I didnt put Dire because no power stat.

Sounds cool but you gotta give up Radiant Fire for it……From what i hear, Radiant Fire is a must have trait.

Guards have another trait that immoblises you when they hit you with their active Virtue of Justice so he could have chain CC’ed you. Scepter immob followed by VoJ active (when traited ) immoblizes you again

RevanCorana.8942:

Yea the ones you applied

Dodge roll healing was nerfed hard tho

yes it sux now. I used to get 500 per heal with no healing gear, now its half that

sorrychief.2563:

I’ve seen mine crit for 4-5k in a party with PS/EA war and FS/Spotter ranger.

Zeal Valor Virtues (is there anything good in Radiance anymore?)

Right hand strength, Radiant fire (or retribution), justice is blind, renewed justice, Amplified Wrath…

They all look pretty good to me. And with medi you get fury so you are getting a lot of crit chance bonus there.

hmm i dunno i kinda prefer the Radiance line a lot more than Zeal

BurrTheKing.8571:

Spartacus.3192:

Juba.8406:

Quickness does stack got it to 11s, killed a guy in 6s just auto attacking.

How did you get 11s ? what other procs are you getting?

6 seconds from Frenzy (unless they changed it), 4 from Heightened Focus, 3 from Sigil of Rage.

ahh thanks

Juba.8406:

Quickness does stack got it to 11s, killed a guy in 6s just auto attacking.

How did you get 11s ? what other procs are you getting?

warduke.1780:

The question is, what’s going to happen to the condi and boon durations we used to get from traits…

+1 yes i want to know too.

anking.6245:

They may care about the class, but they surely don’t play it. Some of the most disheartening things have been seeing the livestreams, and watching the devs flat out forget the names, the mechanics, and the abilities that are central and core to the Guardian class.

+1 . Karl seemed laughably ignorant of the Guardian profession skills/traits during last Friday’s Ready Up. How sad for us Guardians.

Anti.9156:

15s cd.
and it seems like it doesnt effect the caster, which kinda suxs

15s is an improvement from the 20s cd it had before and if it affected the caster you would have chained Aegis. so it makes sense not to affect the caster.

I dont understand why Anet nerfed MotP. I mean my warrior with Phalanx Strength and Forceful Greatsword can’t turn around without throwing out half dozen might stacks. Its insanely easy.

Yup PvP people can be rather annoying but dont let it get you down. lots of good advice from people that have already posted

Brian Ponder.9017:

Made a comment that 4 people fighting one warrior and never dropping him below 90% hp was kind of BS: Cussed, called a “kittentard” for hours on end, followed around, left PVP lobby and the whispers are STILL going on (Been about 30 minutes).

Had to LOL at the above comment tho. Were those 4 people not wielding any weapons because pretty much any class is toast when focused by 4 people.

Zxavier Augistine.7312:

mace is boring and only belongs in certain builds made for PvP, in PvE they arent great when compared to sword which is high burst

I feel sword beats mace in PVE only in 1v1 encounters. Ive found mace to be much better than sword when farming mobs in ORR and Silverwastes. You can gather up a lot more mobs and take them down in overall less time than with sword.

blakdoxa.7520

Shelter
Last up to 2 seconds. Protects up to 5 attacks.

Im sorry but i’d rather have unlimited blocking on shelter. Its a life saver in WvW zerg fights and if you get focused by a group. I can easily block well over 5 attacks with it.

Agreed pls let us sell all minor runes/sigils….takes up soooooo much of my time and way too much inventory space between dungeon runs.

Black Box.9312:

Spartacus.3192:

Anet’s Guardian dev is too lazy/doesn’t care enough to do that.

You make it seem like they actually have someone dedicated to Guardian balancing. Good joke.

I like to give them the benefit of the doubt but then again in the Ready Up, Karl really didn’t sound like he knew the guardian well at all. Compare that to the Engi dev that was speaking and its worlds apart.

Ragnar the Rock.3174:

At the very least they should make it a 1 second ICD per attacker

Anet’s Guardian dev is too lazy/doesn’t care enough to do that.

Also why is radiant retal still broken? They talk about it on the ready up but does anyone read these forums to know that its been broken forever?

Saiyan has a point tho. Rune of the Krait 6th bonus
“+20% bleeding duration; when you use your elite skill you inflict bleeding, torment, and poison for 8 seconds to nearby foes. (Cooldown: 30s) "

Feel my Wrath is on 30s cd untraited so could be kinda fun for condi bombing.

Black Box.9312:

I also laughed pretty hard when they said in the stream that retaliation is “Guardian’s thing” when all of the new retal traits are terrible.

haha yeah. Retal was a guardian thing when healway was around and before the WvW nerf for Retal damage. Unfortunately all that happenned before i started to play this game.

i hate staff outside of WvW (when zerging) and maybe if im bored on VineWrath.

I was getting 50% with GS Mace/Focus and having fun in ORR/Silverwastes

Ryouzanpaku.1273:

tbh – it does not matter anymore what tier of trait it is – you will always have full trait line filled when lev 80

however I agree it is extremely annoying to proc on hit instead of use….

not really because we were hoping to slot a good GM skill as part of the 3 full lines change. At least earlier when we saw it as a GM we thought we were getting something for it. Now its just a plain nerf since its almost a mandatory skill for pvp/wvw

What!!! i was so happy when it looked like CI would proc on use. If its not then its crazy to put it as a GM trait!!!

wish it was so but it has a 20s cd right now and i doubt it would change

i was able to get 50% duration just with food/utility and going 4 points in Virtues which was pretty nice for my boon guard. Gonna have to drop that build style if they dont provide an alternative next week

ive been using GS Mace/Focus for solo PVE in ORR and Silverwastes for some time now and its pretty good currently. Seems like it will be even better next week.

I play on a T1 (NA) server and was selecting a specific server to play with friends. It took about an hour to get in with repeated attempts done while watching TV. Not really that hard.

Based on my friend’s experiences it also took about that amount of time.

yes it sux that you cant get in but its not like its impossible and takes weeks of attempting.

Coming from an iOS Pay2Win Freemium MMO, to me GW2 is incredibly “cheap”. Even with my occasional gem purchases i am spending way less after breaking the Freemium addiction. To me the Ultimate edition with the gems and char slot is fine. I would be buying gems at some point in the next 6 months anyway.

As the OP said the Time to $ spent ratio is very very good.

Hi, so since we were told that half of the stat bonuses we used to get from Trait lines will now be coming from base stats and gear while the other half will come from the trait line, whats happening with boon duration (virtues line)?

Do we have to get Givers gear to get boon duration since now virtues line will only give 15% boon duration.

Thanks

I have Level 80 guard and warrior and let me say, despite all the crying on here, Warriors did not get as kittened as guards did. Lets just say between the two, I will be maining warrior still.
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Unless of course i roll an Engie since they are Anet’s little darlings.

-Permeating Wrath is an on target effect

^ This seems to be the only thing the devs really really listened to the community about.

engi buffs sound amazing

MiniEquine.6014:

Spartacus.3192:

Wild speculation you say….How about Guardians actually get a movement speed buff and a better shield.

Ooops that should have been posted in Wishful Thinking thread instead.

Guardians are one of the most mobile classes in the game

Seriously? I wonder why then my thief and warrior feel like they can move around the map and disengage soooooo much easier than a guard.

Wild speculation you say….How about Guardians actually get a movement speed buff and a better shield.

Ooops that should have been posted in Wishful Thinking thread instead.

i would def want that….but with a cooldown

I think to prevent abuse…a cd between 2 and 5 min between changes would be ok. If you want to change more often than that you would have to do it manually like now. That should prevent spam changes of builds but allow for more tactical changes in WvW for example when roaming and u see an enemy and want to use a counter build for it.

I have never been interested in map completion but it was extremely easy for me to get 65+ skill challenges done on my alts ready for the new system.

By the way i have less than 25% map completion on any of my alts.

MaximillianVonSchatten.6278:

I find this whole thread hilariously delightful and ironic. Thieves complaining about another class?
Thieves who can one-shot burst almost every class?
Thieves who can stay stealthed over 50% of the time in combat?
Thieves who can easily escape the AOE nuke of a zerg desperately trying to locate them?
Thieves who regularly win 1v3s and cap towers solo?
Thieves who are the absolute darlings of Anet?

Are we really complaining that one class may just have a chance against thieves 1v1 if traited specifically for that purpose?

hmmm i kinda want to level a thief now. hah

I wish i had bought a PC gaming laptop instead of a MacBook Air. My frame rates suck so bad i have to play on pretty much the lowest settings.

get traveller/speed runes on Medi or retreat on shout build as mentioned above or if you get really annoyed do like me and just log a warrior and revel in the warrior sprint trait.

The thought of doing 100% map completion bores me to tears. I play this game for fun and running around a map to get every single vista/wp/heart (some of those hearts are worse than watching paint dry) isn’t my idea of fun. Fortunately Anet made Exotic/Ascended gear more than good enough to run every single game mode.

…..Legendaries do look good though, just not enough to go through the pain for me.

I think retaliation being based off a % of damage dealt sounds good and would help multi hit burst damage dealers BUT i would also like the retaliation becoming more like reflect in that the retal damage you do is subtracted from the damage you yourself would receive.

SlayerSixx.5763:

Shelter’s heal is OK at best. If people wanted the heal for straight up healing, our signet does around 8k. Guards take shelter for the block and blowing a block at any time is dumb. If you’re struggling against people blowing shelter for the heal, I’ve got news you won’t particularly enjoy.

If the passive aegis every forty seconds, which can be burnt by an auto attack, is giving you trouble, that news of mine is only going to sound worse.

100 HPS passive is OP? Well then.

Whacking away with the hammer as in what exactly? The auto? You’re getting hit by auto? Every attack on hammer is terribly telegraphed. Seriously, are you lagging?

A passive 300 more burn damage every five hits. I suppose your perma poison on auto is OK though, right?

I honstely don’t know what to say to you man.

Ouch now thats a burn (pun intended)

Julie Yann.5379:

I don’t find it boring, I just don’t take well to being told what and how to play by a bunch of demanding little pugs.

What is the difference between using PS/EA or not on a dungeon run anyway, 30sec? 60sec? 2 minutes on some longer harder paths? Unless you are trying to break speed records why does it matter? If 30 to 120 seconds is what ruins your gaming experience you got issues.

im not sure its just a 30s or 60s speed improvement. I have found that with PS/EA we get to kill the bosses faster which means pugs find it easier to manage their defensive cooldowns. When ive been on my guard and we had no PS/EA war (or any war) in party then fights last noticeably longer and inevitably someone would screw up and get killed. It would cascade from their to either we wipe or take even longer to finish fight because we were a man down.