Guild Wars 2

Siege game got more terrible with every change by Anet. Used to be pretty good in the beginning, now its just golem rushes and AC stacking. and being available on TP.. well pfft.

oh but seriously calling us a bandwagon server is like the nicest thing ive heard -ever you dont know what we’ve been through and after all this time for me its wonderfull we are getting really strong compared to what we were. sometimes i thought gunnars would die like Vabbi or recently WSR – it was tough fight for the survival of our server but we pulled through and now we can kick some butt for reward

dont think that has anything to do with it since we had no guilds running when I lose Sm (i was commanding). Insane strong push, id even say the strongest ive seen so far.. How many Omegas and Alphas were this? And how many UW O_O I was ready for it and expecting golems since a long time, we had tons of ACs everywhere and i saw dozens of UW and most of the golems die, but still you simply walked over us into Lords room and capped T.T Wow i feel devastated atm.

“I don’t recal anyone saying any server would be a pushover least so the ones we face this week.”

yeah it was my own opinion seeing your numbers and pug strength, shame on me, but then ive been to vacation a bit and dont know about my server very well atm it seems since we got WBC and TEO.

im totally up for spawn camping UW nice chasing in rogue camp right now for about 5-10 minutes? LOL. but then someone with poison showed up and i died Keep em coming boys, seems we arent a pushover for UW afterall

so this is how it feels to play against a very high pop server xD Madness in EB you guys got queue 24/7? feels like going up against 3 busses with a bike :o our only chance to last a bit is getting Arborstone on the map with constantly pushing UW so we got a little time to breathe. Because those frenchmen are pretty mad after not having anything most part of the day xD Nice work UW commanders properly stacking and stuff, this is pretty hard for us this Weekend! And nice defense of SM, i hope it will get capped at some time in the week, seems not today!

“We on RoS have been outmanned all week but you still cannot get any kind of lead on us”

thats pretty scary, ticking for 695 while outmanned. sadly, not enough forum warrioring on our matchup (them germans too nice…), we miss you guys :-D

Well ive been commanding the last 4-5 hours and Millers went for us plenty of times (Anza and Mendons) untill i siege capped our towers. You know Wildcreek is kinda impossible to take frontal, also Aldon is hard.. and im a bit scared Drakkar will go straight for us when we go into heavy siege mode on Millers (which we could do). So for us ist good to keep Drakkar busy with doubleteaming their corner so they dont come to us. We can deal with Millers (at least i can), but ist very hard to defend against 2 opponents (as you surely know. But well at this moment Drakkar capped SM after 30 minutes to 1 hour fighting in SM and rolling over us Gunnars from the back many times when we were close to capping and stalling millers. Ist the easiest enemy that gets double teamed usually, and blue has ist weaknesses when it comes to being in range of SM and possible countering their trebs. Green is very weak against SM trebs too btw, maybe even weaker then blue. Only red has good positions to countertreb.

missing offhand on 2nd set.

Veritas its still 50% increase of migitation for every time you double armor so perfectcly LINEAR. no diminishing returns. your fault is you take the base damage and compare it to the migitation progress (you say 12.5 of 50 instead of 12.5 of 25, because guess what if it was 25 (in your theory of linear) you suddenly wouldnt take any damage at all), wrong maths simply. so once and for all: if ist was 11 instead of 12.5 it would have diminishing Returns, but because ist 12.5 it is LINEAR.

nah that wasnt me :P i had duels in south of GH BL with some people after /bow, i alwys let them live after putting to downstate and i run physical Utility build. hope you guys enjoyed our heavy Event today all Guardians and warriors, good you had many ACs because fights were easy for us in field :P i was a bit scared by your night / morning crew yesterday which brought us down to 35 tick but now i think ist safe to say we win this matchup. very good Job by gunnar’s hold, i was hoping this was possible but didnt believe it 100% after reset ^^

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Combo

I DEMAND that all Anet employees have to play the game at least 4 hours out of 8 during their WORK TIME and be PAID for it. Also at a request of anet employee working in spvp this PAID TIME can be extended to 6 hours out of 8 without the superior manager being allowed to say no. i want to see them Anets working themselves to top rating and know every kitten thing about balance that there is to know :P because when i read this “we work 9 hours and play the game in our off time”.. well thats a sad story imo.

its a good allround weapon and synergizes very well with greatsword which adds the missing mobility, but can be used with almost any kind of second set, be it power-based or condition damage. also it provides the only combo field that the warrior has (F1) so its great to learn about warrior combo effects.

i rarely see longbow coupled with anything but GS so this is new and refreshing. but seems a bit susceptible to being kited when pin down is on CD? (and the cd is rather long) maybe taking bullsrush for utility? my usual longbow rotation is F1 -> #3 -> #5 and then smoldering, fan while closing into melee range to finish.

good suggestion to make it better against conditions, though the build features a lot of adrenaline gaining already (triple adrenaline from crits with a 82% chance). but then could just aswell drop the physical utility tbh and do someting overall better / different since kick is the main reason for physical utility or the other way round.

edit: if you guys insist on condition removal – prolly mending will do the trick, but well lose a bit of healing. but the adrenaline gaining loss isnt breaking the build.

it seems a bit OP in wvw i just went to /sleep next to lvl 80 p/d thief and he couldnt bring my hp down full healing exotics (1.5k+ healing power) and 0 0 30 30 10. also demolished 3 people lvl 80 alone (ranger, thief, necro) because their dps was insufficient. granted its weak against poison but with traited warhorn thats no problem and you get some good protection aswell. strictly talking about wvw here where we get silly amounts of armor and are able to use buff food aswell, no idea if it can be built for spvp. but in wvw healing shout warrior with signet just got really scary.

it is best used to gtfo with 1k imbarush (now you can use it 3 times). cant see any proper usage except maybe zerg vs zerg fighting. but CD is still ridiculous 150 seconds.

this isnt a build for spvp, its for dueling :P if i was to make a build for spvp i would run bunker of some sort , especially after the changes to healing. i was intrigued a long time by unsuspecting foe with lots of CC, but couldnt really make it work despite trying a lot of things. hammer / mace stunning is fine and you can make it a sustain build (though i dont think you stand a chance against bunkers aswell), but thats not what im aiming at, this build is a quick burster for brutal rollovers. if you land a proper CC it means the enemy is probably dead. i have dueled a sword/dagger thief 3:0 (no idea how skilled he was – probably not very much), his problem was running out of initiative to dodge my CC and when i landed a tremor or bulls it was GG. im not saying this is a viable build for spvp, please the title says Duel Build – i could also add a “crappy” before “duel”, it wouldnt matter to me.. but ist hellova lot of fun to play and its good enough to kill 95% of the players in wvw, at least i havent lost a single duel yet in wvw (though many in spvp). wait thats not true, actually i lost a duel against a GS / LB warrior.. but out of pure arrogance xD it IS viable against all kinds of glassy builds though. give it a try, enjoy how its played and put it aside again. its Bruce Lee, you dont want to take him against guns and towers of a good heavy engineer, but that zerker build of almost any class will be in for a surprise when attacking you, it has a lot of “wtf” potential just like hammer / mace.

also, please be welcome to change this build into something better against whatever you think its lacking. but it wont be bruce lee if you take the principle away from it which is big spike damage while CC chaining and yes the phyiscal utility, the bruce-kick. and when you finish someone with a kick to the face, well.. tell me how it feels.

also in wvw i actually build different because i can maintain a high crit chance from gear, cleansing ire for condition removal, extra regen, way more heavy.. but in spvp i cant do those tradeoffs, if i lack damage the build doesnt work anymore because i cant go into long sustained battles.

also.. are you seriously running rampage? :X

which is what i said all along. though generally have had no problems dealing with thieves so far, not lost a single duel against thieves yet. but yeah like i wrote.. not good against bunkers and tanky condition classes. but i guess you havent tried the build at all and thus didnt understand it in the first place.

Hurrr Burrr, i tried to get it to you in decent terms, but how about this: you screwed up the build and made it viable for absolutely nothing when it was viable in some situations before. also, nice build for trolling i guess but your not gonna kill anyone with just CC.

lol hilarious thread. Hugh =)

the build has 82% crit Chance, you dont need unsuspecting foe you can set up easy eviscerates with tremor or bullsrush / kick or use shield stun and swap. yes this build is weak against tanky/very evasive condition classes that you cant chain to death quickly, but its bruce lee, what do you expect :P on the other hand you’ll rip through any kind of zerker build with ease and have the control to deal with tankier power builds aswell. “before you get to do any real damage” is hardly the case with this build – gap closing is in it, chill and cripple – only have to watch out for stability and avoid CCing while its up. also you got stability yourself to make sure you land that devastating chain without interruption and stomp easily.

Burr i see your point, but i think you sacrifice a looot of damage and kinda take the “joke” from this build which is hitting like 10 trucks while chaining CCs to bring the enemy down in a 4-6 second spike.

full power build with all the downsides – heavy CC, high damage. lots of possible combos (combos as in CC chains, not Combo fields ^^). weak against bunker / and tanky condition builds. most of all this is a very fun build to play, being bruce lee and using phyiscal mastery.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQRAnZ8ejcOxupOGPMxBCjihQkzDqMFyrUYH3A-TsAg0E4owxhjBHJOWcGFsuY/xkAA

edit: sorry there was a mistake, didnt mean to take mobile strikes, ist sharpened axes actually.

for WvW i i use PTV armor to not be too glassy. noteworthy maybe that axe / mace is the dps set so in WvW you would put zerker stats on those weapons and something more defensive on the sword / shield. also in wvw the traits are different, for now i put 20 into defense for cleansing ire .. but still trying around, feel free to make this build better, this is just a prototype.

after various negative feedback about no condition removal i suggest mending for healing skill – havent tried it yet when im writing this, but ill give it a go, should work in theory.

Thanks to Rorik the Machine for Initial Input.

Thanks for many nice duels, [Haaa], [Vico], [Pony] and the ones i forgot the name

- that [MM] Bruce Lee Warrior

@Contiguous: It is important for us young people to learn about the values shared by our parents and few things better explain them then what you grownups laugh about. so please tell this cool story to your kids, broseph. maybe i’ll hear about it on the schoolyard where i will doubtlessly get bullied by your offspring as i get bullied by his “grownup” tool father on a public forum.

As of this day im quitting GW2. Only part worth playing was WvW anyways and im tired of organizing numbers for anets game just to be competitive in wvw. kitten this Business model, now i see why the offpeak / imbalance issues never get adressed by Anet. I’m drawing the line here, kittening tired of being the pawn for Business interests. Tired of being the punchline of this joke of a mass-pvp game. good bye fellow wvw warriors.

its a 1 trick pony build and a competent player will simply stunbreak your bulls and dodge out of 100b. what are you going to do then? throw out pin down into F1 into #3? and then? wait 48 seconds for your lyssa burst? dude i know what im talking about, try some 1v1 and face your limitations. ive been running this build for months, yes its a good warrior build, but far from viable in any kind of competitive matchup due to no versatility at all. you cant expect to do good in pvp with a 1 trick build, if it fails you dont have much to fall back on, only pin down and gtfo with rush or something like that. but yeah smack down some high level baddies, thats possible anytime since they are downed by your burst before they even noticed wtf is going on. its what i do too, dont be hating, warriors dont have options atm.. but still i wouldnt sell this build as a viable tpvp / spvp build.

my thread asking for a viable 1v1 build for warrior got no serious response from anyone. i guess thats kinda descriptive for the warrior situation. we have some good builds for wvw zerging and roaming and PVE, im no spvp expert but from what ive read on the forums id judge we are some kind of supportive dps / cc role there rather then anything important.

this is the best warrior build i know for 1v1, but definately not viable in spvp, not even in 1v1 any competent player will dodge your burst, wait for lyssa boons to expire, then proceed to own you. ive been running something similar for months in wvw, thats where the fun is at with this kinda build (disengage with rush+whirlwind and bullsrush = superb trolling), but in spvp? you can only down fools with this, sorry :P

lol i say we dont have the kitten to attack BT, every evening we go to WSR simply because there are fights there already by BT and easy keeps to take to push our points. I am definately embarassed, on the other hand cant really say much since i have hardly played any WvW this week.

halp plx or should i just throw in the towel? maybe rifle / longbow?

Hi, we got a 1v1 ladder competition going at my server gunnars hold and im taking part with my one and only warrior. i tried a bit of dueling with my warrior and it seems like a morbid joke. i can burst someone with lyssa-zerker-gs, but that only works on baddies. trying any other build i hit like a wet noodle and have no sustain to keep up with other classes. is there any viable 1v1 build for warrior? something to actually kill someone without needing him to screw up hopelessly?

they are both power based weapons so they scale with the same stats (power, precision, critical damage). but they dont offer any good combos imho, rifle also can hit only 1 target without the rifle trait. Greatsword is a good weapon for starting because of big damage and a free dodge on whirlwind, rifle seems more a pvp weapon to me, but i dont have a ton of experience with it. i would suggest axe / shield for more damage / some protection – or especially longbow for 2nd set in PVE as it provides the warriors best ranged AOE damage and can setup combofields for greatsword.

@Sitkaz: I read many reports in this forum that gates are bugged again and there is a bunch of skills that – if you use them on gate – will put you inside. some of this was fixed some patches ago, but it seems its a more widespread problem again in this patch, maybe it fell out again. if you want to see this in effect – make a fiery greatsword and use #3 skill on gate :P should take you right inside.

“Therefore close WvW at night(10pm GMT maybe) and open later at the day (10 am GMT).”

On GH our EU people hardly start to play before 10 pm GMT, 10 pm GMT is the height our our primetime.. and 10 AM when everybody is at work you want to open it again for morningcappers? nonsense. >.<

whats needed is simply the points coupled to amount of players in wvw, thats it. points earned when 500 people play should be worth more then points earned when 50 people play. this way 10 people going on a capping spree at offpeak wouldnt make up for 100s doing their best at primetime.

our roaming/wvw guild dont go to EB, these are puggies following the pug commander. i’m sorry about the spawncamping, know it feels terrible but it seems much easier for us to make a lot of points in EB than to push into a borderland, i guess thats why all the karma / wxp hungry dudes gather up there and go for karma train. we seem to have a queue on EB throughout large parts of the day now.

weapon switch.

/15charrrrr

yesterday around 10 pm we had queues on 3 out of 4 maps O_O i have not ever seen so many people on gunnars on a monday evening. im telling you we are like a fluffy dog… if you kick our teeth in on day 1 we hide in cellar.. but if you play with us and we have fun, we will eat you with our giant teeth :P

HAI TDA

Not the worst matchup this week… uaghbrrlpf.. what the hell…

EDIT: Got my kitten handed to me quite a few times few hours into matchup.. this might prove more interesting then i thought :P I guess you guys know how to small scale fight – being generally small scale :P Ha excuse the bad joke. Hope we can have a nice week.

its just not a competitive format, more like a schoolyard bullying kids format with constant 2v1 and a milion ways to set it up.

most boring matchup in a long long while, didnt even play anymore yesterday :O hope we will get some more interesting servers next week. AS is very strong but very boring to play (monobus 60+ or gtfo) and Dzagonur this week is only a shadow of the power we used to know, hardly seen any of them outside EB. A bit suprising considering how they did on reset / generally on weekend.

there should be another EB map – just with a very low player cap. say 15 per faction. that could be fun?

1) 20man team from Server A hitting Hills on our borderland, 20man team from Server B hitting Bay on our borderland. You have 20 core team members and approximately 10 randoms following your commander tag.
When you AFK, what type of sandwich do you make?

This question must be considered carefully, because choices in this scenario are critical and smart Adaption is necessary. Let us look at the team composition of the enemy. Is it melee heavy? I suggest Roast Beef. Sylvary? You will greatly enjoy various salads.. Asura? Half a Sandwich will suffice.

2) We are defending Garrison on our borderland. 10 defenders, around 25 attackers. We have no supply left and they have 2 alpha golems on the inner gate (come from via watergate). One of our scouts spots a further 20 enemies incoming.
What excuse do you use for switching off your commander tag so someone else gets the blame for losing Garrison?

I dont need excuses to go afk. also’ if there is anyone doing the blaming, that would be me. I am the commander, i get to put the blame. Logical. also, you generally shouldnt blame the commander because its just a player with extra 100g. and what can the commander do if everyone are scrubs anyways?

3) You are caught out in the open between Bay and Garrison on an enemy borderland. You have 10 people and were attempting to move to Quarry to cap it. However, of the 15 enemies you notice that most of them are upscaled. How many times is appropriate to jump on their corpses?

Since we are heavily outnumbered, i dont think we would get to dance on their corpses. However, the general rule here is: The more the better – as it will show them you enjoyed the fight and are happy about winning it. If they dont respawn it means they agree.

4) You have just logged on and people are screaming in guild chat for more to come defend our borderland. How long should you idle in the Trading Post before it is safe to join in?

A good 15 minutes are the absolute minimum. Inner should be down by then and either the enemy was wiped or your troops were. In the former case, try to act as you had been there all along (dont put your commander tag up at citadel..), in the later case tell them you are sorry that you are a few minutes late. Do not forget the emote “:/” in that case.

5) You notice that a fellow commander is proving to be extremely competent and is starting to build a good reputation on the server. To prevent him becoming more popular than you, name one effective method for undermining them.

I would put my tag up while they are leading and blame them for everything we lose. At the same time i would try to scam their account.

6) Star Trek or Star Wars?

What are these? Starhejm is my name.

7) What is the minimum number of supply needed to be carried by every member of a 10 man team to make sure that you can successfully defend a Tower without running out of beer?

I like easy questions like this… zero, as you cant generate beer from supply.

8) You have a 5-man team at the east supply camp. Large number of enemies incoming, possibly 30 seconds away. You have three choices and only have time for one. Pick the best of the following:
Strawberries
Spinach
Onions

Spinach sells best on TP.

9) How many scrubs does it take to change a lightbulb?

I have to give in on this one :/

Hope i qualified or ill send you my tag via mail

What would you pick as a build if you didnt run with your guild group but instead being an allrounder doing some soloing, small scale roaming, but aswell run with big pug zergs from time to time or defend stuff, escort dolyaks.. just everything?

What are your thoughts on Zerker GS / LB in WvW? How would you build?

Veteran Oakheart.4035:

Good job to GH and DZ, it’s interesting enough to play you, – since our last matchup was Vabbi FoW -, hope to keep this good untill the end.

Arborstone you are amazingly strong, currently very underrated. Will see you again for sure! Very aggressive playing, im quite a fan Impressive how you been sitting on that Dzago bay all week Long.

we were exhausted from Ruins and Millers last week, thats why our reset looked pretty weak and overall numbers over weekend werent that high. but we are picking up steam again as you can see, when we are winning we get stronger every day and we will go into next reset again being a scary brute untill we get demolished and its PVE time again :P

GH recruiting TDA :O why you leave us for a dolyak named Bessie It still hurts mengz.

Seriously, join this banana-flavoured guild. Or GH.

Currently [FURY] is playing on Gunnars and they are punching very very hard and like to be in EB, so even doublepushing our enemies cant do much. Also new guilds are forming out of nowhere to perform amazing feats or are coming back from some PVE. Shoutout to [HT], [Lions] and the other “new” guilds starting to make impact in WvW for GH. Also… [MM] is getting a real force in WvW after killing over 9000 dragons a big part of them found their way into WvW. Dzagonur was crazy strong on weekend, but then Arborstone showed us that they are scary as hell in primetime and also have better coverage which has been costing Dzagonur the 13k lead they had on weekend.

Hard pushing on SM yesterday Resulted in a flame war on our side, but we held .D