Thank you very much for the help, I generally don’t play with racial skills though as I think they are gonna get removed anyway – and I hate Norn, they are fat
Hey guys
As necro is the only profession I didn’t play in WvW since the patch (post patch only in PvP, pre patch I enjoyed power builds) I’m asking whether you can give me some help with a Power based or Celestial Solo Roaming Build for WvW.
Not sure how good the Celestial Build I play in PvP is in WvW, as it has a high focus on team fights.
Trickster when used with the trait “Haste” causes the latter to have a 36s cool down instead of 48s giving double the cool down it should.
It isn’t game breaking and to be honest actually makes the trait usable. Please do a balance pass at tricks with a view to reducing some of their cool downs.
Oh thought that was fixed some weeks ago.
Thanks, added it.
Potent Poison – Poison duration increase is not correctly displayed on the stats menu and has no effect on Dagger Training’s tooltip when toggled on.
I have been using a build with an 83% increase in poison duration, meaning the tooltip should display 3 1/2 seconds (actually 3.66s) for Dagger Training as well as a 10% increase in damage, but it remains at 3s with no damage change. It’s definitely connected to a Potent Poison bug, as the duration and damage remains unchanged on Dagger Training despite toggling on and off Potent Poison, but functions with other poison duration increase options.
thank you i will try it out, the loading time isn’t a big deal as i mostly play WvW anyway
the file is too big for the destination file… does someone have an idea how to make sure that GW2 can only play when a different variable is fulfilled?
It means your external drive has the wrong filesystem type. If you don’t have anything else on the drive reformat it as a NTFS drive. It is probably formatted as FAT32 right now which can’t have files above 4GB regardless of how much space you have on the drive.
Ah true I heard of that back when I was using a mac…
How do I reformat it as a NTFS drive?
GS, H Warrior: usually easy kill as dodging their important skills is easy due to animations
Meditation Guardian: it’s hard but doable against a burst guard, gotta watch out for their gs burst though
Thief: as I run Improvisation I can usually outstealth them and #4 on pistol to interrupt stealth is really helpful… normally a matter of who is able to get the burst of first though
Condi Ranger: just take really long to kill while I have to watvh out to cure their condis (which is pretty easy with SE and Improvisation)
Power Ranger: as long as I got my CDs and therefore my steal gap closer it’s a matter of evading #4 and interrupting/making them cancel #2 on LB until they’re dead
Condition Engineers: with Lock On really really hard to beat if you can’t burst them to 20-30% health right at the beginning praying for crit on backstab
Power Engineers: also pretty hard, especially with Lock On… SD does have tons of damage that needs to be avoided somehow (blinds dont work well due to all the different things hitting you)
Power Mesmers: usually not a big deal unless they really know what they are doing with interrupting HS through BP and so on, as most Burst vs Burst fights it comes down to who is able to burst first…. blinds and evading GS’s #2 even out of stealth help a lot
Condi Mesmers: pretty much the same as condi rangers but both can condi bomb you to death… also condi mesmers have more access to better stealth so a fight that I usually don’t start because I’d likely be asleep by the time one of us is dead
Power Necro: As long as I am able to surprise them or they don’t have 100% life force they are pretty easy to beat, otherwise Death Shroud means searching for some LoS and interrupting #4 while evading the last tick of #5
Condi Necro: A pain in the kitten , condi bomb stronk and with 100% life force I’m like nah thanks, I’m outta here
Burst Ele: Comes down to the first one who lands his burst usually, Thief has the upper hand though due to cooldown baiting from stealth
D/D Ele: If I catch them off guard and burst them as well as hit my steal to use Ice Shard after they left water attunement, I stand a very good chance, otherwise it’s a lot about dancing forth and back
That said:
- Struggle against Engineers with Lock On and Condi Necromancers
- Struggle against D/D Ele’s + Medi Guards in a fair fight
- Getting bored against Condi Rangers and Condi Mesmers
- Matter of first burst against Power Thieves and Power Mesmers usually
also pretty experienced btw, r80 with Champion Shadow and ~500 or 600 of my 900 WvW ranks done with Thief
It’s more of a way of restricting myself kind of, got the security authenticator done already.
Is there a way to split up the 21 GB from GW2 so that I can actually put it onto my ext hard drive (120 GB free so space is not the problem… just the file is too big)?
thank you i will try it out, the loading time isn’t a big deal as i mostly play WvW anyway
the file is too big for the destination file… does someone have an idea how to make sure that GW2 can only play when a different variable is fulfilled?
Hey guys
I just wanted to ask whether it is possible to pull GW2 on an External Hard Disk Drive so that you can only play GW2 when this Hard Drive is connected to your laptop/pc?
I can’t think of when Throw Gunk would be useful at all for a power thief but Nephrite did you ever play D/D Ele?
A Thief using Ice Shard right after you rotated out of water… most annoying thing for an Ele and the best way as a thief to beat them (and the reason why a lot use the trait Stop, Drop & Roll in WvW Roaming at least)
I dont even know why Anet kept Fleet Shadow in Acrobatics… with chosen Acrobatics you will most likely have 50%+ swiftness uptime anyway, add to that Pack Runes or ToC and there you go Fleet Shadow is even more unnecessary in a trait line that doesn’t have any other traits improving Stealth…
Hey guys
So pretty much exactly 1.5 years ago I stopped playing PvE at all, turned to PvP and WvW Roaming and since then barely ever touched it again (apart from sometimes throwing some rares in the MF)
I’ve basically been playing the game since launch but now I’d need some advice: first I’m gonna get the world completion on my thief but I’d need some ideas for what to do after that.
I’m planning on running fractals and dungeons again as well as doing world bosses like tequatl and jormag/shatterer/… but what other content is there in PvE that is rewarding?
I really like your ideas, some great suggestions here!
one thing, as mentioned above infiltrators return could be brought back to 0s cast time but made unusuable while cc’ed
also, one idea could be to make the one acrobatics trait give you a 3s redudced steal recharge on a successful evade on kitten CD (or thereabouts) instead of -1s CD per 1s…
would be more notable and evading a strike omce in 5s is more likely than once every second
right now all the ICD number does is look low, while it actually wont benefit you at all
In the forums there were a lot of ideas how to make S/D viable again.
This goes from 3s reduced recharge on steal on kitten cd on an actual evade (instead of the current -1s CD/1s) over healing on evade to Feline Grace on evade basically.
[not my ideas]
if anet would ever look at the thief forum they would get informed about the actual crap traits, how more viable ones could look like and how to fix some of the build diversity problems in general…
Bump. Why don’t thieves get looked at when it comes to bugs?
I mean I don’t know whether any other class gets looked at when they talk about ways to buff the bad trait lines they got atm for example, but at least some bug fixes would be appreciated.
- Reduce the initiative cost of Infiltrator’s Return to 1 ini. Now it no longer breaks stun
sry?
What do you not understand? It used to break stun then they changed it so it no longer break stun, but the ini cost remained at 2.
Edit: Ok, it never technically broke stun, but it could be used to get out of range while stunned, and that was changed by adding the 1/2 second cast time. This was often just as good as a stun break.
1/4 cast time, still feels like ages but it was necessary
would welcome that reduced ini cost and any defensive buff in acrobatics (even though that should be active defenses), generally a whole rework of quite some traits (fleet shadow… really? this is not a stealth line and it also gives you some swiftness already… doesnt make sense)
May the devs get some brain and give us back Feline Grace… just not on dodge, but if an actual dodge (not sword #3 for example) makes you evade something
I’ve had inconsistent results with it popping me out of stealth too. Can anyone confirm? It seems to hurt the most when you so the CnD into Steal (without Cloak on Steal).
True, happened to me as well – seems like the actual air strike takes some time in these moments and the damage dealt reveals you.
iirc (playing S/D so i am not 100% up to date) it also happens when you simply C&D
