Guild Wars 2

its because of general damage levels are much higher .. where you could previously outsustain the damage of one person this is no long possible, thus you only win 1v2 against people who are truely horrible or are hardcountered by your build.

bloodletting wolf.2837:

Hey bud Anet have said multiple times that the game isn’t balanced on 1v1. Continue to cry and wonder why it doesn’t get changed if that what suits you.

where did they say that? please dont lie.

chasing / searching for mesmers has always been pure kitten and reached new heights of low after patch. if you post this on the forums you get a lot of mesmers defending their “skills”… suprise, surprise.

^ this

also thirdly cleansing options are kitten on most classes, which makes you rely on that food as a second much worse option. all the classes should get more cleanse and condi transfer right back in the face of them plex scrubs. not as a baseline, but as build options that are actually decent without making tradeoffs that completely kitten up your build or use an utility with a freakin 40 second cooldown on cleansing 3 conditions.

its very wow when you get 15 stacks of confusion, 5 torment, 3poison,3 burning and 10 bleeds with 100% extra duration and you need to land a melee burst skill as warrior to cleanse them – and the kittener goes to stealth – see how far those -% food and traits gets you against condi classes. really great design. thank you anet. good job o7 i cant even express my gratitude for what you did with the game in this patch. really splendid work. thank you again! here is my number: 0800-greatdesign. would love you to call so we can have a chat. also have to say.. good job! really nice work. everyone can see you really have your competitive game nailed down. thanks again… will go write a personal letter to you now! see you guys, much love. also looking forward to more changes coming! the new guys really seems to understand what they are doing – trapper runes, torch trait, rampage, moa, confusion.. im stunned by all the excellence in design. want to send you teddybears and flowers, chocolate even. well just thank you very much! thank you! thank you! thank you! kisses hands, bows and crawls out of the room

The matchup Gunnars vs Drakkar vs Abaddon is bonked.. cant login to EB and getting network error afterwards trying to login to Lion’s Arch. (Gunnars Hold, blue side)

“I was wondering how Shoutbow is still competitive”

It isnt.

Knight’s variant with banner i’m running atm:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR5ejMdQVIWACOeAnIGKCKtLaiowGgHIAwSYvDBA-T1CEABQcEAsZ/hoUidnmBCuAAdpE0gHAgUKPaTHAAHEgGV/hUALpMC-w

Damage is a lot better then you’d expect (armored attack, sigils) and with 4k armor this build can take a serious beating. Not too strong against condition spam – melandru, food, cleansing ire & zerker stance doing all the work here, healing signet if you still eat a condi bomb. but then again which warrior build is good against that after shoutbow was binned, seems you have to stack every last condi cleanse now to keep up with the spam

thats it…

shout warr was our only alternative and its gone, lack of sustain… every single warrior now needs zerker & stances.. or maybe cavalier & stances..

signets dont seem to work for a proper build, traits that make sense are all over the place instead of in their particular line … warrior has no sustain left at this damage level.. sturdy body my kitten .. its all burst or get bursted and to increase your chance as a melee you pop invulnerabilites and try a steamroll.. so cheap.

i’m taking about wvw roaming here, dont know pvp or pve… but in wvw… warrior is really screwed up… either you play GS / stances / zerker warrior or you can basically go home against 80% of the builds out there without a chance to ever defeat them.

i’m really frustrated right now because stance warrior is like the most boring braindead thing of all the warrior builds and it looks like i’ll have to play this forever if i want to bring any kills home.

can maybe the warrior-balance-guy (if there is such a person) drop a few words on where they see warrior in smallscale and what they think about the current damage levels and warriors class mechanics… or maybe some pvp people tell me about their experience (looking for opinions of people who really have the class nailed down, played all builds etc.) so i would even go there and do that boring circle-capping if i can get a few good fights out of it.

I dont get it. There has been vast amounts of feedback of how we dont want WvW turning into another EOTM… how we want less PVE, less gimmicks, less vertical, less karma train – just a solid map which makes big battles possible and logical. You chose to completely ignore us and actually do your best to offend us in any possible way by doing the exact opposite… why do you hate us WvW players so much?

yes skullcrack → 100b. you can setup skullcrack with shield 4.

be aware that mace 2 reflects projectiles for the full duration, but only 1 melee hit.

if you find something to do with mace 3… let the warrior community know xD worst weapon skill in the game afaik.

Right now i run cleric shield & mace and assassin’s greatsword. this gives me about 300 more armor when i switch to mace / shield and 15% more crit on greatsword (using accuracy sigil) along with 1 Cavalier and 2 Knights pieces, rest full zerker. Its all about what you are comfortable with, personally i like a bit of armor to not pay the full bill for getting bursted unaware.

What i can say is when you are learning the class / build – tanky gear makes the learning process so much faster because you can spend much more time in a fight.

Permastealth mesmer is a pain in the butt… but other classes got more stealth too, engis now use moa, warriors rely on rampage, confusion spam… all those on top of the new burst-meta which make fights pure kitten. please keep it real and stahp the gimmicks, revert to more serious fighting instead of throwing cheese at each other or lulbursting 100→0 in 2 seconds.

“best professions in the game and has some of the largest viable build diversity”

wow i just got a headache, some people will say anything.

meh same here.. shout warrior is dead.. relearning generic zerker GS warr :S you’d roflstomp me now

ye build is a nobrainer – prolly 80% of warriors run it with some alternative weapons instead of hammer and some other choices in runes. not like there are any other options..

Always ready for ya Jayne, i think there’s still some of my arrows stuck in your butt from last time <3 Still running condi mesmer?

nay but scare them and make them waste their dodges / blinks / stunbreaks so i can mow them down better with my GS! there is always the odd guy not having a stunbreak or whatever ready.. but as a rule, no..

Well.. you know stun duration depends on how much adrenaline you have, right?

@all: Anyone up to date on the Para sigil? What does it do exactly these days? I know it used to round up to next second.. is it exact now / rounding down? Only want confirmed infos, no guesses..

Still loving “Garri Watergate” – male norn guardian afaik.

A list which shows dedication to wxp farming.. why not lol.

formula is weapon damage x power / armor = hitpoints lost

no DR in gw2 except on loot.

this build is called “Nike Warrior” and while its a good roaming build its also considered pretty.. not to put a too fine point on it.. lame! (because hurp durp burst into run away). No1 ganking build though!

By having 15 players having the same impact on ppt at 5 am as 200 players in primetime, the value of primetime players is greatly diminished for ppt. With points per kill instead of points per tick offpeak players would have the same impact on total score as primetime players. how do you like that, Shiren?

its not viable.. good against thieves and to some extent mesmers (compared to other warrior builds only), but that doesnt make it viable. you dont want to go srs duel with that kind of build. build mostly relies on highend gear and people not paying attention to killshot.

skullcracker still doing fine.. need a little armor now imo but not much, 2-3 knights trinkets..

“you can’t have all defensive Infusions for your trinkets, 2 of them would be offensive”

Wow didnt think anyone would actually check those xD Sorry for being lazy <3 I use power on the offensive ones.

About your other suggestions.. i would lose a TON of damage for a bit more survivability.. i also used to play standard meta zerg warrior so i know where you are coming from.. but this is something else :P

not looking for originality points here, just a solid wvw build for big bad warriors (commanders):

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAneRnUJCVhgdhAmhAkighfgCjhDvGsFIAaANN6+uA-TFCEABQ8AAY4IAU8+DOp8jLlgGcIAUU9HAOBABAQA4oH9oH9oHtMALjB-w

change these for small scale:

- stance heal to healing signet
- vitality trait to mighty greatsword
- shield trait to dogged march

how to capture the pirate ship:

pop zerker stance -> shield 5 and run into enemy zerg -> switch to GS, do whirlwind and arcing slice for fury -> pop rampage -> go to town untill rampage runs out or your health gets low -> leave rampage and pop endure pain and balanced stance → stance heal when your health gets low -> switch to axe and go to town some more -> pop shield 5 / gs 3/5 to get out before they CC you to death.

this takes about 20-25 seconds.. if your ranged cant win it now… well, you tried :P big bad charrrs get bonus focus when going into rampage in the middle of enemy zergs.

reverting some nerfs would do us good aswell.

- bring back old SoR
- bring back condi conversion on warhorn
- bring back fast pulses on fire field.
- bring back some boon duration in tactics line

being a rampage-bot isnt a lot of fun in the long run..

“I am getting a bit tired of seeing this line thrown about. There exist lots of PvE in WvW, if you removed it, WvW wouldn’t work at all, since it is designed to be a hybrid between pure PvP and PvE. Remove all guards and lords, and dolyaks and enjoy the map.”

no problem there, camps would have to generate supplies in towers / keeps directly (while still granting to players) and wvw would play out exactly the same except for the npc you kill before capping and the loot you get. the pve is pretty irrelevant for wvw, the npcs only matter a bit if you are running solo.

condition conversion was the most important part of the warhorn… you usually got the counter-boon to your enemy, say a heavy power hitter inflicting vulnerability would give you protection.. a condi spammer would get his poison turned into regeneration.. it was the part which made a skilled shoutbow player godmode and helped to overcome the weaknesses of the shout healing build (weak against sustained high dps, weak against poison). for the average zerg warrior this doesnt matter, but its a big part of why shoutbow has disappeared from roaming / duelling. i’d say bring that kitten back!

pointless putting competitive elements in a non-competitive gamemode. first fix the coverage issue.. otherwise you’re just throwing rewards at the server which gets most of them anyways.

DHawk you are right i dont usually play thief… However i have one at lvl 80 fully equipped for burst so i do know what im talking about. Cant access my stats during work but might post them later.

i invented shoutbow back in august 2013 when scrubs went all “wtf no stab you noob” on me. check sig. also havent played it anymore since patch because condi conversion from warhorn was a huge part of the build and healing nerfed, its not viable atm.

6k.. you talking about spvp or something. you know you are in the wvw forum, right? Where people run around with ascended gear, bloodlust stacks, food and what not.. if you hit for 6k in wvw you probably didnt crit xD

you want dumb easily soloable npcs to drop same loot as players? no. go pve if there are no players to fight and you want loot. no reason to bring pve into wvw.

“Don’t get it twisted. The expansion’s content, new class, or fluff are not its biggest selling points. Access to future Living Story, Seasonal, and Special Events episodes, achievements, and rewards are.”

As a WvW player i dont give a kitten about all these things, actually you’d have to pay me to do those farm-events for virtual money or get meaningless achievements, and not with ingame gold. Still will pay 60 bucks just to keep on wvwing and see if i can get some fun out of stuff which Anet overlooked to turn into a karma train. I dont expect anything whatsoever from Anet after the last 2.5 years experience, but the combat system still warrants to stay with the game untill a better one pops out and thats not on my horizon atm.

dupers would sell them on the TP xD i doubt thats the sense of the event.. its just some brain fart of some manager i guess.

points per kill should be about 1/2 of the score and all rewards from npcs in wvw should be deleted. people who dont like it can go to EOTM to farm.

I just wish there was some other game with a combat system and wvw like gw2 so i could finally quit, i’ve been mad at Anet since 3 months into WvW because the issues are so godkitten obvious and yet they are unable or unwilling to do anything about them.

well they cant dodge when they are immobilized :P generally i try to use the shield to explode and not to block because the damage is huge. but you are right, its a pretty big investment and if someone pulls an invulnerabiliiy or blocks im kinda caught with pants down.. on the other hand guardian still has so many thing to burn through defensively.. not a big problem. but yes catching people who want to take off can be a bit hard with medi guard, only scepter 3, no cripple. O_O

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vVAQNAR7dlsAhqhY5QwbIwPEH8DVuCzwNEHAzwfeL3NYEA-T5AEQAmDCA8JAAuAAAA

standard i guess, but im new to guardian.. shelved my 3 x lvl 80 warriors since patch. stats are 3k armor, 50% crit.. rest into power / ferocity. i dont see alternatives in the traits for this setup.

id like to hear feedback, tipps and tricks for medi guard (would love a link or two) or even questions if you want to ask a newbie guardian with a ton of experience on warrior wvw xD

seems to me this is some sick combo build (which i cant pull off still)… focus 5 -> sceptre 3 -> sceptre 2 -> judge intervention -> switch weapon hydromancy -> GS2 and smite condition. And press some virtue first for the fury.

i’m really envious of your skills and gear.. one thought: signet of dolyak not an option considering your food / no stance trait?

lioka qiao.8734:

You know.. if you think about this it’s brilliant.

With a single weekend event anet destroys the supply of omega and alpha golems on the tradepost and makes them valuable again. If players burn all their golems in one weekend they wont be able to golem rush as effectively as before.

value is the average amount of work in a good, so nope. there will be a some jumps in the golem price because of supply and demand, but value stays the same in the long run as they changed none of the requirements to get them.

Give the golems to everyone! Free the golems from unnecessary market relations! Or at least send us a couple of stacks, tyvm. Fun and golems for everyone – all week long! Shout it if you are with me!

i’m pretty sure a golem 80 vs 80 would lag a lot less then a regular zerg vs zerg. Still.. Anet please stop tortureing WvW players. Please!

That is a really good idea! Wait untill all gates are down, THEN defend 10 vs 50. Thanks Jayne.

they are needed to get rid of the overbuffed ACs which are needed to get rid of the oversized blobs which are needed to get rid of enemies ppt in this coverage game.

im not aware of any good builds for warrior post patch. I shelved my 3 lvl 80 warriors and running guardian atm

we got blobbed whole weekend every 30 minutes with 50+ people and omega golems… we tried defense, but what can you do when you are outmanned 5 to 1 and omegas… same old coverage issue.

Who feels like spec changes to warrior are just random clicks? No concept, no plan, no direction.. i dont even see a theme or any strategy, i dont see nothing… feels like they put all the stuff in a big box, shake it around a bit, empty it on class templates and voila the new warrior. same goes for new stuff… here get some stats with these random things you do like activating a signet. Is it just my mood today (and all the days since patch?)