Guild Wars 2

switch healing skill to adrenaline surge or whatever was the name. the healing signet is fine for signet builds and low levels, but doesnt cut it at lvl 80 anymore. might be interesting on a full regen build, but thats definately not your choice.

google “youtube captain hammer gw2”, might be what you looking for.
i play it myself, any questions are welcome. There is no thing as full tank who kills 1 on 1 easy though. That would be a very tanky greatsword build, but cant be compared to shouts / hammer in terms of survivability.

ive played various 3d mass pvp games since about 13 years pretty nonstop and my judgement is thief needs fixing. either make him a homing-missile-style truckload of damage dealer and prevent the stealthing-at-all-times. or make him stealth and get away from anything and not do tons of damage. both at the same time is ridiculous. I mean it can happen when people who design classes dont pvp a lot themselves, but at some point when we are 3 months in, half the pop rerolled thief, everything is full of thieves, the whole forum is full of thieves-op posts.. at this point its getting ridiculous, Anet.

im from GH and i dare say Piken has a really strong guild (BOON) which is coordinated and also knows how to pvp. havent seen anything alike on abaddon nor aurora. there are big guilds there, but not outstanding in quality like boon.

20/20/30/0/0 GS build with knights stuff – plenty beef on the table.
btw there is only GS if you want to do damage, all other weapons suck.
ill make an exception for mainhand-axe here but thats it.

if you want fancy, google “gw2 captain hammer” – not as much damage, but hell of a lot of fun and control.

show me one other game, just one, where a stealth class can hop in and out of stealth while in combat to their likeing and hit like a truck at the same time. its broken and no amounts of words will be able to excuse this sad piece of class design. culling issues are just the cookie on top of the broken stealth design.

as much as i love the hammer (playing it myself) there is one thing the hammer surely isnt and thats viable for roaming. you play the hammer in groups for control / interrupt, its damage simply doesnt allow to kill anyone with half a brain.

btw my GS build is 20/20/30/0/0 for the guy that cared. with runes of the pack and axe/warhorn as a 2nd set i can stack swiftness indefinately. running mostly knights stuff with a few berserker pieces mixed in = 3200 armor, 3400 attack, 40% base crit. GG.

Greatsword Warrior.

I want to be able to roam. check.

I want to be tough enough to stand up to whatever and put out DPS enough to kill whatever. check

Swiftness close to perma would be a necessity. check

Being able to gtfo of dodge would be a requirement or my repair bill would suck. check

Being able to melt a Thief’s face would be a bonus. check

Even bigger bonus would be something unique and unexpected. sorry there..

Alexinho.7480:

Yeah as there were no other fights we fought in front of the spawn. had a good time there with you and the legendary defenders. Best moment yesterday: A random golem just walked right into the spawn …. (just a few minutes before the server reset )

hahahaha yeah that was hilarious! i was like hmmmm a golem seriously- what is he going to do? is he immune to defenders or why does he walk like he doesnt care? hmm BAM dead golem – oooook? lol. best time for me is where 4 of you guys got killed by legendary trying to rez each other and i killed the last one standing myself woot.

had some fun with DSun at the DL spawn yesterday – im sure you remember the warrior with the hammer unforunately legendary defenders got more kills than me, but i put enough of you guys to the ground to feel like a champ nice luring me to green lake and band-jumping me out from cloak, i had to learn that the hard way lol. props to the wolf guild thief – we met before when i had my greatsword. lets taste some grass together again another time.

22k hp
3300ish armor
3400+ attack
40% base crit
30% extra critical damage

aurora armor (invader helmet, whisper boots), knights jewelry, ruby runes, runes of the pack x 6

20/20/30/0/0 traits

“it’s not intended as a treadmill, but rather as a tier of rewards that can help bridge the gap between Exotics (a few hours of effort to acquire a piece) and Legendaries (hundreds of hours of effort to acquire one).”

this.argument.is.so.wrong.

i for one dont care about rarity, but about STATS because i want to PERFORM. if the best stats take 5 minutes ill take them and if they’ll take 200 hours ill grind them aswell. however i would not even dream of grinding for something rare that does not have the best stats so please would you drop that argument, it hits miles away from target. it IS a treadmill because the stats are better than exotic, nevermind about rarity and people grinding for legendaries, thats some completely different topic.

“This weekend event made me realize that ANET created an AAA title that they will turn into a small A rated game”

Yup i share this sentiment. With Ascended they kittened over all casuals and with the event they kittened over all hardcores. good work Anet, just one weekend and a big part of the playerbase is pissed and ready to leave. Maybe we can get rid of the other part on next weekend by removing fractals and adding 10 more empty borderland maps?

Commanders should be elected per map by all the players currently playing. Anyone interested in leading would join a board where people vote every 2 or 24 hours or so and the winner gets the commander badge for the next 2/24 hours. achievments and money both have nothing to do with leading skills and should be dismissed as factors. if we have guilds voting their boss in thats perfectly fine, thats democracy.

its probably a terrorist attakc

call 42:6:3:2060

its simple. there is no single reason to make ascended gear having better stats then exotic EXCEPT THE TREADMILL for non-pve players. infusions, agony.. all nicely thought through and perfectly reasonable, but the stats increase is

1. a blatant lie by anet considering earlier statements
2. totally unasked for by the community
3. completely unnecessary for anything ingame, fractals included.

just why the kitten did you do it?

enough to take a camp.

soldier / aurora armor pieces, knights trinkes, ruby runes, pearl GS.

21k hp, 3.1k attack, 3.5k armor, 37% base crit, 20% crit mod.

i lose against kiting condition damage necros who outlast me with their 3 life bars but thats about it.

Gunnars pop would like you to take your mouth where your characters are. From the current WvW population hardly anyone remembers you and we dont need drama in our threads. You are a thing of the past, let it be.

Will miss you guys! You were the living wall between the organized guilds that are few and the random people that are legion. you were legion and somewhat organized Im sure you will do a great job on Ehmry. Hope you will think of us sometimes and the good times we had wading knee-deep through bodies on Gunnars! =) Take care KISS!

Thank you for your kind words, PeeTee, exactly what Gunnars needs now =)

Alternative build warriors – i melt their faces with my GS.

this stuff can backfire. saw a piken square yesterday taking his rage out on abaddons after he got killed in the JP… he camped the place where you have to jump down and get to low hp and killed every abaddon that wanted to JP, sometimes 3-4 at a time. other server people were allowed to pass with a /wave. i dunno how long he did that, but it was all because of some abaddon guy using mesmer-wall to pull people down into the water for quite a while. im pretty sure the people that got camped by the picken thief and couldnt finish the puzzle were VERY thankfull to the loner mesmer when they had to repair their 3 deaths and call it a day on the JP.

Mesket you got it bro.

@Plague: “Tanking” with 3k armor.. yes you better dont.

20 str 20 arms 30 def is what im using for my tanky GS build.

whats your gear stats? and longbow / shout .. may not be the most viable build ever >.< i mean you really want to kill someone with just fire and autoattacks? im not surprised they all just walk away..

just put the same drops to other zones as in orr (lvl 76-80) gear and materials and i will go there. i will NOT go there if i get lvl 80 drops in orr and lvl 27 kessex hills.

Orr is really hard and scary once you arrive there with level 79 and blue / green gear. It becomes very easy as soon as you are yellow / exotics. 2 Exceptions: Veteran Risen Giant and Orr Catapults – keep off those if you want to live.

abaddon have lower numbers but kick more kitten per person this week, is my impression. you guys coordinating more? :P also greetings to the nice abaddon players who dont kill me in jumping puzzle. /wave

piken plz teleport more into my 100b =) thanks!

longbow is king in WvW, you can more or less keep a wall on fire. Best weapon on both offensive/defensive siege situations. as for the rest – everything works in some situations, only noteworthy thing is warriors shining in mobility overall.

hey – vitality adds really little hp. better to get toughness imho. warrior base HP at lvl 80 is 18K. i wanted to go vitality too but it is a poor stats, you really dont increase hp much. on the other hand warrior has a lot of regen abilities that make up for condition damage. without toughness you will get hit really hard.

wow you are right, that sucks. its being overwritten :/ will get rid of it asap /cries

i do mostly / only WvW and there you get speed buffed all the time. so i prefer having extra speed on top of swiftness. but yeah ive been thinking along those lines too, might change to it, might not. both are good imho.

toughness on every piece (even the GS) does that. im closing in on 3.6k armor. still got 40% base crit and about 3k attack. 22k+ hp. invader and knights gear and yes im ridculously tanky and i still do about 10k with a 100b. i can pretty much run right into the middle of the enemy zerg, pull a 100b and escape back behind our front with a few k of health left. im running 30 defensive traits and 10 into tactical for better melee speed. rest of the points are to trait into GS.

usually i just leg it – too much effort involved in killing a thief. find some target far away – bulls rush and #5 – bye.

oh and bye to this forum too. just got an infraction for making a joke with no harrassment involved. it was “not contributing to the topic”. wow.

Hey Xorbah

I found the Warrior to be extremely squishy on the way to lvl 80. Even though i had my 30 points in defensive, still did bad damage and died to 3 regular monsters all the time. But it got a lot better since i hit 80 and started to get exotics with +tough, +pow, +vit. I think to be competitive in WvW you need to wait till you hit 80 and get gear with the warrior, sorry. Also your weakest point in the game will be exactly when you hit 80 and still wear some blues, greens from lvl 75 or what not. Just hold out, as soon as you have some exotics and the rest rares, you will get really tough and do great damage, dont feel weak anymore on the battlefield at all.

Greetings

I’m from Gunnars, having a great time this week! I have not been on Maps that got Orb hacked, thanks to everyone who is reporting them and thanks for giving back hacked orbs (if you do). Yesterday i was at Gunnars Borderland where Orb is in Titanpaw. Nice Try Abbadon, you almost got away with it if not for our quick response and the upgraded Titanpaw (my work :>).

Abbadons you guys have good strategy and communication – often a big zerg pop up out of nowwhere, i think you do cross-map-coordination too. very good and very interesting for us.

Aurora i’m sorry you dont have more people atm, Gunnars was in the same situation a shot time ago, but we are finding our ground again with great efforts from community. I hope you will rise again too. Btw i got my kitten kicked the hardest by Aurora this week, some of your people are very serious pvp Bunker Guardian gave some lections in pwnage to my team :7

Good fight guys, i hope Gunnars can win this because we have not won in a long time! Hope we can have more great battles this week =)

so this is your argument: thank god WvW imbalance makes the game suck a little more or i would play way too much and burn out. hmmm!

if you have no queue, join WvW when you need to go to the bank or reset your traits. one of the borderlands offers a bank, all of them offer a trait master. i would really like to visit other zones frequently, but putting like 8 silver on the table to get there and back makes me cringe.. id have to grind 4 hearts for that.. brrrrrrr.

critical damage? ^^

“Oh and to op: Maybe pvp is too hard for you, try hello kitty online for a change.”

boah kitten alert.

WvW is a ghost town at this very moment in the lower tier servers. Damage has been done already by the free transfers. Only solution i can think of is changing the WvWvW from server vs server to assigned cross-server-groups vs each other. This would take months, if not years, so the only solution for players that like to WvW and found themselves on the losing servers that are getting spawn camped daily: Transfer.

There is also the problem of rampant hacking and botting, but even that pales compared to population issues in WvW.

“Wrong. ANet are “unwilling to do anything about night capping” because there is nothing wrong with it.”

There being nothing wrong with it is what you and ANet decided, the players see it quite different, as countless posts on this forum prove. Nightcapping and population imbalance are one and the same and its killing the WvW for 2 out of 3 servers. 2012 seems to be the year of great games and great failures due to developers or executives like this Matt Winter or Jay Wilson not acknowledging the problems and instead making shady arguments that could support either position anyways. We had this in Star wars, we had it in D3 and we have it in GW2 now. Better start taking the players serious…

what you mean killling… its already dead on 2 out of 3 servers, look at the scores. for my server i can say we never have a queue, theres absolutely nobody playing at night and at primetime we still have borderlands that are completely unpopulated. that is after we had 2-3 hours queues in the first weeks on every map. that is after a huge amount of people have transfered to top tier servers (where they probably have like 3-4 hours queues now). that is despite huge community efforts to get people to WvW. i fail to see any sesnse in this, but im pretty close to just throwing the towel and finding a new game.

pow/tough/vit gear exotics for those rare moments when you dont want to get instagibbed by every class and its mother? there is karma dealers in the high lvl zones that deal with those types of gear: http://dulfy.net/2012/09/08/gw2-templegod-karma-armor-sets/

dunno how you guys are building but with my pow/tough/vit build i can just auto-attack swing my GS at pretty much any class and win. if they want to put up a fight they get bullsrushed and downed quickly with a quickness-100b combo. you really need to get around to find someone in WvW who doesnt just leg it when you start swinging the GS (which is his death sentence anyways because warrior mobility > all).

Also ive never been hit by anything for more then 10k since ive hit 80 and got a few exotics.. thieves used to instagib me when i was lvl 30, but on lvl 80 with some toughness exotics that kitten doesnt happen anymore. they combo and then leg it seeing 1/4 health gone and getting a crit from my GS for a good part of their health.

Tower Shield Skills:
1. Shield Ram: Charge into your enemy to do damage.
2. Shield Block: Block the next attack and stun the attacker for 1 second
3. Shield Wall: Ram your shield into the ground doing damage and create a barrier.
4. Shield Throw: Throw your shield into enemies for damage and cripple.
5. Shield Protection: Hold your shield up high to grant random defensive boons to allies around you.

Hi Baelnorn. Condition damage for the rifle – hmm! it shoots very slowly, so stacking up takes forever. on the other hand it does a lot of damage when stacking power and crit – im not sure its a good idea to go condition-rilfe. condition-longbow, hell yes! but i think rifle is not made for condition damage, on the contrary.

also: the weapons are for different situations: the longbow is great for defending / attacking keeps or throw some aoe in a huge zerg, the rifle is a 1v1 weapon and more or less useless in the situations where longbow makes sense. you can see this as positive since you cover all situation with both weapons, but on the other hand defending/attacking a keep can take a long time and switching weapons does not!

longbow is a beast in WvW, easily denies closed-range siege like rams and clears the walls in seconds thanks to the aoe burst and arching shot. the immobilize is also one of the most evil catching skills in the game. it might not work in spvp or pve.. (though when i get surrounded by 6-7 wolves – out with the bow and burn, dogs!), but in WvW there is no better siege weapon except maybe from engineers. tbh i find the longbow to be close to overpowered in defending / attacking keeps. the effect im having in sieges with my newb equipment is quite devastating, want to see a real longbow warrior with condition damage and critical.. should be really scary.

yeah we are the fastest by a large margin – use the greatsword and sword and board and bulls rush spell. now you have 5 skills to move faster and the rage signet for constant quickness. thats just imba how fast we can run back to battle from the spawn. also it explains a lot of my repair costs.