Guild Wars 2

I play a very, very tanky warrior, so tanky that I lose out on a lot of damage, and I still don’t go for Rampage because it cuts off all of my healing. If I could still make use of my healing traits/heal skill I would use this thing all day, particularly since you can use banners while in it.

An interesting idea, but due to how you keep asking opposition to your build to provide videos instead of provide the information they are asking for I’m going to wait before getting the gear required to try it.

You’re the kind of person who angers banner warriors…

In WvW your loot spawns at your feet, so if you don’t like picking up banners you shouldn’t stand near them in WvW. I find it to be pretty rare to see a warrior that uses more than one banner, so that’s usually a good way to go. In PvE, unless it’s a large event, you can likely ask any banner warriors to avoid putting their banners in the middle of a fight. And remember you can always just hit ~ to drop it instantly, instead of removing the banner from where it can be effective…

It all depends on the kind of support you want to play. I play a banner warrior with banner of defense, bulls charge, a longbow for the immobilize, and a main hand sword for the burst immobilize (along with berserker stance), and sometimes a shield for the stun all while building as tanky as I can. I might not deal a whole lot of damage, but since I play a lot of WvW if I catch you you’re going to fall to my team.

Maybe one for being hit by a critical, but either way it would need a cooldown.

What on earth is this zoomhack you’re talking about? Arrow cart’s don’t need line of sight, if your character can see it and it’s close enough the arrow cart can hit it. No hacks involved, you just move the aoe field above the gate and below the wall to hit the other side.

The way I play it is like this, if I wave and they wave we’ll be friendly. However, if I wave and they try to kill me I end up camping the room just after the dark room with an arrow cart.

Stonemist would be sooooooo easy to hold if these changes went in… we wouldn’t even be required to hold the walls anymore.

I think this is actually a pretty smart idea. I could see a trait or two giving a percentage damage reduction to incoming critical hits, though for the sake of balance I doubt it would be high enough to make a significant difference.

sachiel.8051:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/thief/Stealth-needs-to-drop-on-damage/first

This link goes to a very long discussion that has already been going about the exact same “fix” you’re coming up with. Maybe you should read it before posting more in this thread.

Very few people are saying a counter to stealth would ruin the class, but just about everyone who is against it agrees that most of the provided ideas would.

I love warriors like this! If they don’t kill me with the first kill shot I get out of combat, throw up my reflect projectiles while blocking trait, and go fight while pretending to not pay attention to them till they kneel down and aim at me.

I think it’s fair. With the stealth wells everyone has access to stealth, and even then most classes have some form of knock back skill. Nothing would surprise me more than a guardian appearing out of nowhere to bubble me off the puzzle. I think it’s only fair that classes without knockback (like thieves) can use consumables to do so.

My warrior, who is not yet level 80, is sort of able to escape thieves that spam heartseeker. I just use main hand sword 2 followed by bulls charge and start booking in to the nearest safe area. Problem is unless that thief is an idiot he will be able to keep up with me, and I rarely survive. Once I have exotic equipment I might be able to escape, but the reason I can even try to escape is I’m constantly watching my surroundings. Stealth lets the thief set up the battlefield, but with it’s relatively low duration anyone who is paying attention to the area around them has a chance to spot the thief ahead of time. Even if you can’t fight a thief that is the key to not getting ganked.

Any remove corpse function would need a fairly lengthy timer. Let’s say you push into an enemy keep, and a small group comes up behind you and repairs the gate/wall and kills the people inside. Right now you can take the gate/wall down again and res those people who died inside, instead of needing them to run all the way back. And what about defenders? This would make defending harder, especially when the enemy force is part way in whatever objective they are taking. Should people really have to run back to a keep to help defend if they died while pushing the enemy out of said keep? If someone wants to sit where they died for ten or so minutes and report what they see… I have no problem with that. It’s like having a character built for escaping fights scouting out what’s happening behind your lines, except they can’t follow you.

Why should you continue to play the thief? If you enjoy guardian more then the answer is obvious, you shouldn’t. Play whatever class you’re enjoying the most.

Any fix for stealth shouldn’t take culling into account, that issue is being worked on elsewhere. If it works in spvp it will work in WvW once culling is fixed. That said I believe making stealth into a bad version of aegis that doesn’t even protect the stealthed character would be a very, very bad thing.

Well, ignoring the fact that everyone can do it the afk timer will kick anyone who is a corpse for too long. If they are in a tower or keep you own all you have to do is wait for the timer to either force them to respawn or kick them before doing secret stuff inside.

My pve one is visible for me, but the pvp one is not. I don’t even have a check box in pvp.

If you need help as a warrior in low level PvE save skill points for healing signet, that’s the skill you need for an easier time.

I got three of these relatively quickly, but I spent about 15 gold on getting the fourth… I’d keep trying but I would need more money.

NotOneToRidicule.2340:

Funny thing happened this evening…in HoD BL, two breakout events occurred simultaneously against us. Is this normal? Reading the release notes, I thought there would only be one at a time.

They are both active at the same time, but usually there’s only enough people to trigger one at a time.

Maybe give a couple more of the hammer skills a blast finisher? Right now it’s only the burst skill that does it, even though the third auto attack hits the ground.

Well, if we can buy frames I’m going to say forget the dolyak and just get one of each endless tonic.

I personally love the thief class, but hate coming up against so many glass cannon builds… It used to be you could use a fairly tank like build and just hunt them down, but now in WvW at least thieves are traveling in packs. Once they pick a target if you’re unable to stealth you are done for.

Dee Jay.2460:

Vv W.7821:

Portals just make a 20 minute long siege where you slowly take down the enemy defensive siege into two minutes. They are not needed.

Sounds like a contradiction to me.

If you physically cannot spend an extra 18 minutes on taking down enemy siege there are likely other, more important things you can be doing at that time. If you just don’t want to spend more time there is no contradiction.

I Will Avenge You could do it. It was taken out since it had a rallying effect identical to auto attacking an enemy while the warrior using this shout killed it. Maybe have it grant so much protection to allies based on the number of downed allies in the area?

To the DR thief who killed me while beckoning him in a tonic form, I just wanted to costume brawl you =(

Portals just make a 20 minute long siege where you slowly take down the enemy defensive siege into two minutes. They are not needed.

I’ve seen NPCs move through siege weapons before… how would they block dolyaks with siege? Even if they can putting a destroy function on siege would give enemy spies the ability to destroy all defensive siege in a matter of moments in between battles…

If there’s one thing that can keep me going in a matchup like this, it’s the fact that before DR takes one of our towers or keeps our outnumbered force pushes them back three or four times. If you guys were not nearly as persistent as you are this would be a very different fight. It’s been fun, but I’m more than ready for the reset tomorrow.

Cactus.2710:

robocafaz.9017:

There is literally nothing else for us to do this week. When you guys find yourself on the receiving end of a matchup like this, you’ll understand the situation. When your opponent has held everything long enough (about one night) to upgrade everything to max level and put waypoints everywhere, it is near impossible to make a comeback.

You have infinite supply, an untouchable map presence, and you’ve crushed the morale of the casuals who make up a majority of the servers. The only thing for us to do is run supply camps, and if we don’t do that in a very sporadic fashion your response team will typically catch up to us after about 30 minutes.

I’m kind of wondering what it does to your server morale to have so many people just give up. The first night after the reset was pretty competitive in EB as I recall … if you had kept that up we wouldn’t be having this discussion. SF could have maybe joined up with HoD to keep DR out of EB and we’d all have a very different game on our hands. Numbers will indeed beat you to a pulp if all you can think of doing is going head to head.

We mostly lost it to wintersday, things will pick up as more and more people get bored of it.

This reminds me of way back in GW1 when everyone I knew hated Ruric, who really enjoyed running off to his death when the objective is to keep him alive.

Since level 20 I’ve been leveling my warrior almost completely in WvW (level 58 as of this post) and so far I’ve been getting enough money out of it for gear upgrades, armor repair, tower/supply camp upgrades, and maintaining my need to buy random things off the trading post, and I’m not a particularly good player. I have to agree with Tulisin on this one.

It sounds like more of a connection problem than a mechanic problem, though it would be nice if the golem was left there without someone in it.

Oh… welcome aboard!

If you do end up in tier 5 I’d like to be the first to give you guys a nice warm HoD welcome to the lower half of the servers =)

For all we know they could have tried a logout timer and didn’t like what it did with the rest of the games programing, so they went with the system we have now. The only difference you see is how it annoys people, but that doesn’t mean there are no other differences.

I highly doubt they will change the thing that’s causing death on a disconnect, but I’m sure they will fix this problem by improving connectivity so that random disconnects do not happen.

Morningstar.6208:

Loyalty and being persistent is the reason we have numbers in WvW. We don’t give up. Many people wanna trash talk devona tring to find an excuse saying “oh its just numbers” . We have good players on pvp and bad players as every single server but there is a fact we have hard working people willing to win. To all those from SF and HoD talking kitten about Devona I am saying this not to hurt you or anything I am saying it because it’s a fact Kain and Fergusons had way better players then you guys and I honestly think they deserve to be in this tier.

A lot of what is on here from Henge is playful banter and pro Henge propaganda, have to keep our own spirits up too you know. Devona is doing really well this week, about the same as GoM if they had a little more strategy and a few less wall rams, and that’s during wintersday! I do honestly think HoD would give you guys a run for your money in at least our own borderlands if it wasn’t a holiday even though, we’ll just have to wait and see. =P

Zizanzi.4678:

“illusions of grandeur” seems to be the order of the day in this thread. Was hoping for some good WvWvW reading but was sadly disappointed. Can we get some good WvWvW talk going?

Stylii Elementalist
(NoQQ)

With wintersday going what else would you expect to find in game? I just hope HoD fights you again on a non-wintersday week so we can show you what we’re really made of.

You DR guys haven’t seen anything yet, pushing HoD into a corner just gets us riled up!

I look forward to attempting to make a full wintersday themed norn warrior! In GW1 I always used a snowman head in combat with an icy dragon sword, can’t wait to see what I can come up with in GW2.

The game is not dieing, WvW is not dieing, and it would seem posts like this are also not dieing…

Can someone post on here when the GoM siege on the HoD bay keep is over? It’s been going for about six hours now and I can’t stay on to see it through.

I Will Avenge You was in GW2 for a bit as a rallying skill, but was taken out since it’s ability was the same as an ally attacking the target you kill to get them back up. Maybe it could be put back in with an ability a little closer to the GW1 version, with some form of healing based on downed/dead allies?

When I face an elementalist I pay close attention to my health and defensive skills. If I’m able to use every bit of defensive ability I have and my health is still going down the best tactic is to leave as fast as possible, if not that elementalist will die eventually. There’s not a whole lot of middle ground when it comes to warriors.

If we had it like that we would have to limit the decisions made to the guild who claimed it, otherwise chat would turn into an argument and spies would go around getting crap upgrades.

Any chance you can link it here?

I usually wait one or two seconds and then throw up either shield stance or riposte while slowly walking backward, that seems to do the trick on avoiding the first blow.