Guild Wars 2

Jerus.4350:

How many licks does it take to get the to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

The world may never know.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/support/Requesting-a-Taken-Name/first#post4392140

Gaile Gray.6029:

We do not take character or display or guild names away from valid accounts. Someone may step away and return to the game later, so the names must stay in place.

You did the right thing in sending a polite request, and hopefully that player will respond and the two of you will make arrangements. (Support cannot switch names, even with mutual permission, but you can do this privately.)

You know you can hold the left and right mouse buttons down and the same time and you will walk forwards without having to use your movement keys.

Just ran all three paths of AC the other night. Just me a guildie and some pugs. I didn’t notice it being any harder then it used to be. Boss still goes down way to quickly at the end.

Much of the front page is taken up by stickies. Several of them such as the hammer guide are badly out of date. Could we get a clean up?

Sublimatio.6981:

TheRandomGuy.7246:

“Exp metazerk” with 9% potions.

this is the most elitist post i can imagine ;_;

Dat 1% yo

I used to use a build on like this for Lupi for my solos, back when I cared about them. It was alot of fun. I like the idea of the new trait system, despite its lack of variety. Some trait lines though, the lack of good traits in them make going into them a pain. I wish we could go with something other then 6/6/6 at times, but when I think about it, I am sure it has something to for when/if we get more specializations.

Some old builds did very good like the 4/5/0/0/5 for team support, then you also had people who just took a lot of random stuff. I think the new system was supposed to prevent them from doing this by stream lining it, it just sucks that it had negative effects on those of us who actually cared about our builds.

As an OCX player, I have never had any issues filling a TA or any other dungeon.

Used to run TA every day for a while, but since I finished my collection I haven’t been back. I usually started my own groups though.

You won’t see level 1s in fractals much since there isn’t a reason to run below a 9, because the difficulty is the same, but the rewards are arguably better on a 9.

ThyShadowPaladin.9521:

No clue why people still care about 5 Guard teams. when there are plenty of other team comp’s that are fare more efficient, Severely Out-DPS & Out-Burst them and more content-flexible. Also, why do you think Fury is OP from an ELITE skill? Most team’s have 1-2 ele’s who can easily blast 1m+ fury in seconds before any fight, or the warrior’s FGJ + Spammable Banner #2 by everyone Pre-fight. FMW, It’s a good elite with no real point in nerfing. There’s better stuff out there.

Pretty much this. We all know that a diverse group is gonna be better then a group of just one class in almost every instance. FMW might be a bit strong, but i don’t think its any stronger then some other elites that we have in the game. It was actually nice to have an elite that felt… well powerful.

I wouldn’t mind if timewarp got a lower cool down. It might cause issues with pvp and wvw though.

In the end, for me the people who are running these five man guardian groups are probably not people I want to play with anyway. So rather then worry about what they are doing in their groups, I am gonna stick with players who play like I do. It’s pretty much the advice I give anyone when they complain about Zerker only groups.

Thaddeus.4891:

Well let’s compare Feel my Wrath to time wrap.

Untraited Feel my Wrath is 16% uptime of quickness. Traited it’s 21%.

Untrainted Time Wrap is 6% uptime of quickness. Traited it’s 7%.

Time Wrap give slow to ennemies (which is a plus in pvp, but not really in PvE).
Feel My Wrath give fury (which is a plus in both PvP and PvE).

My point is that Feel My Wrath is more powerful than Time Wrap. Time Wrap used to be a big reason why Mesmer was usefull in dungeon and now Guardian can do it better? I just feel that Feel My Wrath is a bit too overpowered right now.

If we want Feel My Wrath to be more on par with Time Wrap, we would need to have 80 second of cooldown on it to get around 6% Quickness uptime.

Anyway, there is several solution to nerf Feel my Wrath. I don’t mind whatever method, but I just feel it’s a bit too much right now.

I think you are underestimating Slow, and just how much easier it makes runs.

I got my mesmer parked down there, if you seem me online and I am not busy I would be happy to drop a portal for anyone.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/DPS-is-broken-and-we-are-tired-of-it/first#content

I see some of you all already found it, but its been a couple of weeks since we had a good this game is broken because of DPS. Although granted this one is on the mobs side and not ours its still kinda funny to read.

Good place to start.

So the other day I was doing HoTW path one with a friend.

The pugs in our group wanted to range the Troll at the start. I hopped down and started to melee him when I noticed the groups guardian was standing up on the house spamming staff one.

I “love” a good staff spammer as much as the next guy, but come on do people even read the skills or look for numbers to know at least if they are hitting anything, even if it just tickles them its better then nothing

How can a person have two legendary weapons and still not known how combat works in this game?

SlyDevil.3952:

NapTooN.6283:

Talyn.3295:

I am very glad I hung onto all those usless boxes of ascended gear. Now if only there is a use for those 100+ ascended rings clogging my necro’s inventory…

May i ask why you hoard 100+ Rings? Are you Speculating on a Ring-Eater which gives you a Gift if you feed him an Ascended Ring?

If you are waiting on Stat-Changing for Rings, it would be enough to keep only a handful unless you really want to create 50 Chars.

A staff member stated on reddit that if she had a bunch of ascended rings lying around she would not be getting rid of them right now, and that things were in the works for ascended rings. No timeline was given, but something will happen, something…… dum dum dum

Good to know, but I am not gonna hold my breath on it happening anytime soon. My Necro will just keep his ring fetish for now.

NapTooN.6283:

Talyn.3295:

I am very glad I hung onto all those usless boxes of ascended gear. Now if only there is a use for those 100+ ascended rings clogging my necro’s inventory…

May i ask why you hoard 100+ Rings? Are you Speculating on a Ring-Eater which gives you a Gift if you feed him an Ascended Ring?

If you are waiting on Stat-Changing for Rings, it would be enough to keep only a handful unless you really want to create 50 Chars.

No reason in particular that I am holding onto them. These are just the ones I wanted to keep, I have thrown out the ones I will never use. That and I never play my necro, it makes him feel special to have something to do.

Berserker is the best. CoE or Crucible of Eternity also has Berserker gear, in addition to CoF and Arah.

The following links can give you information on the dungeons if you have never done them before as well as some builds.

http://gw2dungeons.net/

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-Playing-Guardian-in-Dungeons/first#content

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

deSade.9437:

Acotje.5689:

deSade.9437:

Oh come ON, the 5 guard teamcomp is so stupid I don’t even know. I keep chatting and going afk while aaing and I couldn’t even down at archie. NERF THE HELL OUT OF IT

but, but….

Yeah exactly HIT IT SO HARD WITH THE NERFBAT IT CAN’T GET BACK UP NO MOAR

I don’t like easy mode in the game. But I don’t want to see the spec get nerfed into the ground. There are changes needed, perhaps anet could juggle some traits around. Don’t want to see other builds that use similar traits killed due to one easy mode set up that I will never use.

Since the world bosses got more Health, Lupicus needs some as well.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/FRACTAL-RUNNERS-REJOICE/first#post5218827

All i can say is that it depends on the content. I have had enough drop outside of what I have crafted to outfit most of my toons very well. Although I must say Enko has me beat by miles and miles.

Enko.6123:

Finally got around to organizing all my ascended gear I need to convert, With this, an additional 9 sets of ascended zerker armor sets now so 19 of my characters now have full zerker.

Now we just need to get the mentioned ascended ring update so I have something to do with the 454 ascended rings I have.

If I pick all light armors since they’re the most expensive:
Non Raider Box Count
3 Helms: 192g
6 Shoulders: 385g
5 Chests + 3 any piece boxes: 761g
8 Gloves: 514g
8 Leggings: 746g
10 Boots: 662g

Total: 3260g saved with prices of crafting them all myself.

I love all the “no skip” threads. As if anyone in this game kills every mob they see. I mean when mapping do you stop and kill everything? Do you try and solo the champ? do you try to slip past that group to get to the resource node?

If you can honestly say you kill every mob, every single one and never skip past anything, you might have a point. Otherwise…

Arah doesn’t need nerfed, we need more places that offer the challenges it used to.

So does any one think its worth it to convert cores to Lodestones? I mean like a molten Lodestone is 90 silver. Molten cores about 8 silver. Then the wine 25 and the dust another 20ish silver. The question I guess is how much is a spirit shard worth?

Never been sure if its truly worth it.

I don’t want any footfalls on my flameseeker. The whole reason I made it was that there were no footsteps on it.

I would like to see the engi animations updated for it however

My best friend in this game runs a main warrior. I main a guard. Between the two of us we have done every bit of content in every game mode, including Duing Lupi in Arah.

Things to keep in mind. Even if you are not planning on speed running anything. Meta builds are about supporting each other to cover weakness and maxmize strength.

Outside of Dungeons you can pretty much slot anything, but Phalanx Strength will allow you to kill things faster as a team and save her from having to deal with stacking her own might. But only if you are running the bulid with enough Crit chance to make it work well.

Inside a dungeon Banners are going to be the best support you can give. Mainly Strength and Discipline but if you are having trouble with the cotent you can always run banners give regen or take one of the other two.

I primary find that as the guardian I am the one who is giving the support to my friend outside of might and banners, through the use of skills like wall of reflection, stand your ground, condition clense etc

As far as runes and armor I would suggest Zerker with Strength runes. If you don’t want to run zerker then something that gives enough crit chance to proc your might sharing.

Guardians also tend to be slow to run around with, so if you carry a war horn while maping and running around I am sure she will appricate that.

Wonder how long before we start to see, “Hammer guard only groups” In the LFG box

Subutex.2416:

Has the sword really become useless for guardian over mace in PvE?
I really enjoy playing GS/Sw+F so I’m very reluctant in changing to the slow mace, that being said, I’m clearly biased so I’m asking for your opinions.

To make up for what I lose from mace’s symbol, I’m also using the Radiance’s line Retribution (10% more damage under Retaliation) instead of Radiant Fire. The reason I chose to do this is because I don’t see any advantage in burning damage even with the modifiers if I’m running 0 condition damage and I do get my share of retal from GS symbol and virtues (can get more uptime if I use Save Yourselves, which I don’t at the moment).
So what is your opinion guys?

Currently using Radiance, Zeal and Virtues.

Don’t think of Radiant fire in terms of Burning Damage. I was thinking at first. You will need to Swap that focus for a torch, running GS/Mace Torch. Radiant fire will allow you to toss number 4 on your torch more, and torch 4 always did hit hard. Even more so now.

See Obal’s guild for a DPS comparison. I like the idea of sword, but only its auto attack and blind was ever very useful. I never used Zealots Defense outside of PvP

Dheikan.9653:

hennrick.4623:

This build is for pve content, dungeons and probably fractals too since it is flexible enough. This build is centered around high dps weapon with a lot of support for other members of the party, but lacks a bit of personal defense.
I want to say first that i am at all a huge veteran player of guardian and i am not dictating a perfect build at all, instead if you were kind enough to point me where i fail badly you have my gratitude.

Since there are no templates/apps yet, i will have to improvise:

HONOR 2,3,1
Protective reviver ( shelter on rez + boons on compleated rez )
Empowering might ( aoe might on crit )
Pure of voice ( shouts convert condis )

VALOR 2 3 2
Smiter’ s boon ( smite condition on heal )
Communal defenses ( aoe aegis on block )
Monk focus ( meditation heal, grant fury and have reduced cd )

VIRTUES 1 2 2
Unscathed defender ( +20% damage with aegis on)
Absolute resolution/ Supreme justice ( more F1 burning/F2 cleanses )
Battle presence ( F2 passive to allies)

weapons are sword with focus and greatsword, skills are
HEALING: Lithany of wrath ( or Shelter, see below )
UTILITY 1: Retreat
UTILITY 2: Smite condition
UTILITY 3: Free ( can be Save yourselves or wall of reflection )
ELITE : Feel my wrath

Sigils are the classics Force/Fire/air or wathever you feel encessary for big damages, no prec sigils

Runes for armor are Rune of Rage, with +20% increased fury duration, 15s Fury if hit and +5% damage if under fury.
Consumables to your choice, preferable ferocity.

Just to be clear, zerker set.

With his build, using all skills in rotation allows a fury loop on the user without factoring other players, the rune proc or any kind of consumable. Obviously i do not suggest to spam the heal skill for fury, it’ s just demonstrative.

The build has a blast finisher for setting up fields, better than nothing at least, aegis from various sources included the shout, it grants a bit of might to allies and vigor to you, plus area endurance regeneration thanks to honor minor 3 and grandmaster of Virtues ( helpful since vigor effectiveness is cutted in half) , massive condi conversion and cleanse ( the latter more for a panic button), all the perks of the weapons and still has a slot free for flexibility.
I have left Shelter in parenthesis because for fractals someone might prefer the block time, but remember that the traited meditation heals almost the same without the secondary effect, has less cooldown and grants even more fury, also if you want to use shelter and still use the enhanced meditations you might prefer to pick another second one.
If you don’ t know what to pick for the slot, go save Yourselves for Pure of Voice + condi transfer combo.

There are some traits that can be swapped like
communal defenses <-> strenght in numbers
absolute resolution <-> supreme justice ,
battle presence-> Indomatable Courage,
and smiter’ s boon <-> focus mastery

i tried to be the most flexible possible, so if there is necessity of some kind of resistance or some kind of aggressiveness there is always room for that.

Any toughts?

Honor is bad, the only good thing there is Pure of Voice. You dont need to stack might in dungeons. That’s wars/eles job. Zeal is way better , like no doubt for dps. Also Rune of Rage is worthless too, you get fury with “Feel my Wrath” and other party members.. get Scholar or Flame Legion.

Get Radiance over valor as well. Radiant fire OP. You dont need condi clean from Valor, thats why you get consecrated ground and even the f2 trait from Virtues

I also have been testing mace and it’s overall better than sword. I heard torch is better than focus as well but i haven’t have the chance to test it yet.

Your build might be “ok” for open PvE but is nowhere close to be good/optimal for dungeons and fractals.

This : http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgIBrAJkBVg~ is the build im actually using. Get master of consecration / absolute resolution if needed. I think sometihng like this will be meta for guardians unless they nerf something. Also i go full berserker with GS / Mace+Focus (still testing torch)

Torch is amazing with combined with Radiant Fire. Its possible to proc torch 4 twice in a row with it, which leads to very nice damage on crits.

Iris Ng.9845:

“Be grateful that my staff keeps you all alive.” – says pug guard.

5 minutes later,

“Stop dying every 5 seconds.” – says the same guard.

DonQuack.9025:

wups wrong one http://postimg.org/image/qxr211ubz/

A picture worth a thousand words.

I was confused by the 1st one though, but I thought it was just me.

I think they broke the game. I am killing stuff way to fast right now, easily soloing stuff that I coudln’t do as well before.

Lord Kuru.3685:

That was the description of the 1.05g chest I just got for doing CM butler path.

Seems to be happening with most dungeon paths. Happend to me in CoE today. I have have seen screens of it doing it to others as well.

I thought this was the guardian fourms…Did I wander into the necro fourms by mistake?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/So-a-non-meta-team-did-a-better-job-in-AC

LoL, oh but these are some speical snowflakes.

NovaanVerdiano.6174:

So I’m wondering… how did they manage to break whisper chat?

Anet can break anything. They could break rocks with a plastic hammer.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Has-any-other-groups-gone-to-AC

The ball has started

pLaguE.4063:

I’m assuming it’s downscaling, but AC is horrendous when duoing or soloing. I’m sure all of the lower level dungeons are the same. Still won’t be bad in 5 man group.

Gonna be funny to read the QQ on the fourms about how hard dungeons are now.

SlyDevil.3952:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/pre-purchase-community-address/

well then

Meh, the price vs the character slot was never my problem to begin with. Although I suppose this will make the majorty of people on the fourms complain more now that anet has given in on this one.

I just want to know what the challanging PvE content is, and the rest of the elite specalizations before I buy.

Acotje.5689:

Talyn.3295:

Jerus.4350:

Talyn.3295:

Sinister Gear is good against high armor. For some classes better the zerker in certain situations. I know with the incoming update that sinister gear is going to be more useful.

But I am thinking it isn’t going to replace zerker for guardian despite this change. Am I right with this assumption or am I wrong?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Just-hit-lvl-80-what-gear-should-I-aim-for/first#post5185150

Well, there’s still the big ramp up issue to deal with. Even if a max damage situation has sinister higher you’re going to have lower initially, your burst with power will be superior. So it will be a matter of finding where that crossing point is and how it applies in a practical sense.

That was my thoughts. I am also not sure if burning alone will be enough. Thanks.

Don’t go Sinister on a class with only 1 condition.

I wasn’t planning on it. This was in relation to a thread on the guardian fourms. A new player ask for help, I said get zerker or knghts, some one else told him to get sinister. I just was double checking my math

Jerus.4350:

Talyn.3295:

Sinister Gear is good against high armor. For some classes better the zerker in certain situations. I know with the incoming update that sinister gear is going to be more useful.

But I am thinking it isn’t going to replace zerker for guardian despite this change. Am I right with this assumption or am I wrong?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Just-hit-lvl-80-what-gear-should-I-aim-for/first#post5185150

Well, there’s still the big ramp up issue to deal with. Even if a max damage situation has sinister higher you’re going to have lower initially, your burst with power will be superior. So it will be a matter of finding where that crossing point is and how it applies in a practical sense.

That was my thoughts. I am also not sure if burning alone will be enough. Thanks.

Quickfoot Katana.8642:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/3akehl/i_really_wish_anet_would_focus_on_dungeons_again/csdni2h

Reinforcements needed!

Discussions like that are why I avoid reddit.

Sinister Gear is good against high armor. For some classes better the zerker in certain situations. I know with the incoming update that sinister gear is going to be more useful.

But I am thinking it isn’t going to replace zerker for guardian despite this change. Am I right with this assumption or am I wrong?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Just-hit-lvl-80-what-gear-should-I-aim-for/first#post5185150

It honestly depends on how good you are at staying alive. I only run Beserker Armor on my Guardian in PvE. Guardians have plenty of defenseive options to make sure they don’t go down easily. Knights is a good set of training gear with Beserker accessories.

Scholars is the run of choice if you can stay above 90% Flame Legion runes if you can’t.

The meta builds are changing but you can still find good info here in the sticky section.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-Playing-Guardian-in-Dungeons/first#content

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Guardian_-_GS_Sword/Focus/Torch

Come Tuesday this is all gonna change, at least the builds. Probably gonna be hammer or Greatsword/Mace Focus for damage rotations.

It would depend on the path. His attacks are slightly differnet depending on whitch path you are doing.

http://gw2dungeons.net/CoE1

http://gw2dungeons.net/CoE2

http://gw2dungeons.net/CoE3

I agree. I quit running fractals, after the progress reset I have yet to work my way backup to the limit, I think I am setting around 40ish right now. There wasn’t anything to motivate me to do it. That’s changed.

I am very glad I hung onto all those usless boxes of ascended gear. Now if only there is a use for those 100+ ascended rings clogging my necro’s inventory…

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

take that character limit

Steam has them all on sale again, if anyone doesn’t have them…what the hell am I saying is there anyone who doesn’t?

dlonie.6547:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/hot/Less-hard-core-content

I can help ya out. Online now, will be around for a bit

bladex.9502:

Looks like I have to start selling Arah more often

kitten 10 gold for path 3? Market must be desperate.