Guild Wars 2

plz post the build! i ve got tired of the 5-1-1-1-5-1-1-1 spam as a p/d, wanna try something new

fellyn.5083:

So a glass cannon warrior hits a low level character with little or no armor on and the result is surprising?

Yes, I can see why this might need to be balanced.

Besides that, the screen shot in the OP is over a month old and was taken before the bug that increased piercing/ricochet was fixed.

the piercing bug doesnt apply here since there is no piercing kill-shot in here. simply just a underlevelled player getting owned.

i have a gc rifle warrior build, i can hit 12k on level 80 squishies, 18k on underlevelled, but its so easy to use(as long as timing is right) and hits so hard that after a while i get so embarrassed of using it and i changed to a condition build. guess just personal pref

when is it gonna be released?!?! i m refreshing forum every minute looking for bug fixes

Jeremy Winston.2165:

I don’t think WvW has overflow.. when a zone if full, you queue up. No overflow.

of course wvw has no overflow. the overflow we were talking about is the lions arch overflow where OP was grouped.

i only know the answer for 1). u must be in the lions arch overflow server, which includes players from all the other home servers(if full). i was in ioj server but i did the mad king dungeon with bunch of blackgate people because we all were in the overflow server. if u wait a while and queue into your non-overflow lions arch, u will only team up with people in ur home server.

as the second question, must be some overwrite, prioritizing teams rather than server. seen it in other mmo too, should be fixed soon, cuz there is no way its working as intended.

edit:terribad grammar

Aso.9624:

There is a max distance. Seems to be about 6000 though.

i m aware of that, but what i get is no where near 6000, not even 3000; just try it, stand on a flat land, activate the skill, teleport at max range, then run for like 4 seconds, activate skill again, it won’t bring u back to that circle.

Shadowstep
Deception. Shadowstep to target area. Becomes Shadow Return, which returns you to your starting area and cures three conditions.

Say i m standing at point A, trying to get to point B. i use Shadowstep towards point B, leaving a circle at point A, then i use infiltrator’s arrow(or just plain running) during the count down of Shadow Return. Now i press Shadow Return, which suppose to teleport me to my “starting area” at point A, but it will not teleport me to my original point, the max distance of return trip seems to be somewhere around 1600-2000.

bug??

5 signets build is a leveling build that suppose to have little effect on level 80 due to the crit reduction and lack of real utilities, its not even a very effective build in WVW or PVP, and full berzerker is wvw glass cannon build, i see no reason why people put them together and go into dungeon where they need lots of survival.

i run a full berzerker with FGJ +fear+endurance regen signet+SOR, glass cannon traits in wvw. but in dungeon, i swap to power/toughness/vitality+soldier rune+tanky trait healing shout, with 3 shouts in skill sets and reviving banner elite, whopping a hammer, steady as a rock.

i think knight is much better in dungeons, because of those toughness. u will be on ground much more often if in berzerker. soldier rune would be a good choice.

well actually i rolled a warrior because i saw your hammer gun build. just love to swing hammers at foes

the adrenal system is fine as it is, we get a choice of either buildup-and-sit, or buildup-dump-buildup-dump, depending on the situation. like using a rifle in wvw, in 1v1, u wanna keep adreno high and enjoy the buff instead of using kill shot which is just too easy to dodge, or even reflected back to you. but in group fights, you wanna buildup-killshot-buildup-killshot on those staff eles.

i do agree that some of the F1 skills are not worth using, even buggy. no one uses gs F1; hammer F1 always hit no one if fighting on a small hill; kill shot gets out of range even target is within 1200; and rifle skill cant hit roots, cant hit oil, gets obstructed by thin air, plain buggy.

my suggestion towards changing gs F1: ignite the gs, applying condition dmg on every gs hit, like some burning or bleeding, for a small period of time. lose the dmg and crit buff, but gain some condition dmg.

? i wanna know too

tarzan and jane, to keep me away from raging.

just found out that rifle cannot break the binding roots. i was shooting the root for at least 10 times in wvw, none were hit, all obstructive. melee weapon swap on CD, i was immobalized for good.

there were patches??

yup, +7 crit dmg will faq things up with more 10k dmgs on squishies

i think u have confused with main-hand/off-hand with primary/secondary weapon.
but i understand what u r trying to say.

i would go for knight armor. cleric is only useful with shout built which u r not using. and… i only do wvw and some pve, in wvw u really want to have a ranged weapon handy(although they suck in someways but still useful), and a warhorn for some speed while travelling.

there s no counter to this special ability atm.

we can dodge high dmg, or simply kill the pets that other professions have as their main feature. for thieves, atm the counter is to have everybody in the group spam aoe and hope the thieve is standing still.

i agree with this. played a sylvarie early september, plenty of people fighting boss. levelled a charr 2 weeks ago, very lonely, charr/norn leveling map paths had like 3 people in them, i usually need to do events by myself. human path(kessex, harachi hinterland, raisen-dragon map, to cursed shore) is better—about 10 people for major event line lines and 3 people for small events.

i assume it means When (being) Hit, cuz if its u make a hit towards others, it would be worded as When You Attack.

check out other runes, like this one http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rune_of_the_Pack

VOLKON.1290:

Quaggan likes Josh. Coooooo

LMAO!!!

its a very cool jump puzzle, i do a lot of jump puzzle in other mmorpg games too and this one stands out from others. only the camera is bothering me but, guess it will get fixed

yup yup! if i change all my rune of rage to ruby orb, will make me 87% crit dmg, plus the personal backpiece that gives a 4%(currently using mad king book), and +12% from rings, should go over 100% crit dmg. will work on it over the weekend.

now i just hope they fix the frequent OBSTRUCTIVE bug…

i didnt meant to say i dont believe ur numbers. as in my post, i did tell that i m having rune of rage in exotic armor and only have exotic ruby earrings for trinkets.

atm i have 3000 dmg with 85% crit dmg(90% when fury). when i go home tonight i m gonna try ur build. i actually didnt know that we can put ruby orbs in armor :/ thought runes and crests only

edit: bad grammar :\ sry mother-tongue no english

i just tried this build yesterday, with berserker armor, berzerker amulet and earrings(no rings yet, no money), berserker rifle with 5 percent dmg sigil, in pve. however i swapped out the shout gain adreno trait for siget recharge 20 percent faster. it makes my SOR recharge down to 48 seconds, with rune or rage, fury will last for 36 seconds, then i can use FGJ which will give another 9~10 seconds of fury, almost perma-fury(perma 15 percent crit dmg with rune of rage).

but anyway, i just reached 80 last night and only had time to try this build on few monsters. killing normal raisens with auto-attack i get 300~400 with 70 bleeding for no crit, around 1k for crit. valley gives 5k with 2 crits, 7~8k with fgj. highest i ve had was a kill shot crit at 10k, with lots of buff and debuff, when hitting the champion at the end of plinx event line.

the downside is the random OBSTRUCTIVE msg that shows up every now and then. i was sure that there s nothing in between me and that champion, but two of my kill shots got obstructed, then goes on a 10 second cd. very annoying.

and btw, the champion downs me with two hits

i gave up because there are parts that things like bricks or fences block my camera viewing angle so that my camera was instantly drew into some texture, and i have to re-adjust my camera angle to see my next step. very annoying. same thing happens during normal plays too, there are times when some tiny tree branches block my viewing angle, forcing my camera to draw back and forth at a five hertz frequency. thats a headache-maker for me btw, when concentrated on fighting.

edit:grammar

wow thats such a expensive rune u r hooking up… wouldnt it be better if use rune of rage? 60 all attribute isnt really that great for a glass canon build imo.

Samurro.1463:

I’ve used a similar Axe based Yojack build for quite some time now, I am a level 80 Norn Warrior.

I think this builds main purpose lies in PvE(dungeons+solo) and WvW! I did not enough testing to comment on the usefulness of this build in sPvP.

I really love the build because of the benefits you get from using 30 Tactics + Warhorn offhand. Perma Swiftness + Fury feels like a must to me, now.

I don’t like the Adrenal Health choice, Yojack made, or I am not convinced it is worth those 5 points. I now respecced to this build. For more crit damage those 5 last points can be spent as seen fit, I hope to achieve somewhat higher damage output by my current choice.

My Norn has full Explorer Gear (dungeons+solo+WvW) because I want to be as effective farming as much as possible. And yet I have to discover any problems with that setup. In WvW I fit more into a support role, with Warhorn condition convertion and Shout heals. And still can dish out some heavy Eviscerates if needed or use a Bow as my second weapon, which I think is a must in WvW..the bow I mean. ^^

the build link is [bad link], could u post it again plz?

well… its a rifle, so… i guess it should shoot like a rifle…

skill 4 isnt all the same, its got some rings around the bullet as it travels through the air.

THERE IS A FREE HAT?!?! ?°?°?

the camera distance i have right now actually is the shortest among all the mmorpg i have played, even though i have it panned out to the farest. makes me feel that my screen is too small and very uncomfortable to play. i love the distance when fighting the two elemental hands from the centaur boss in herachi hinterland. i dont understand why cant adjust normal view angle to that distance.

i made a lv 44 character and made five gold coins along the way up. i went to the trading post just now and bought a rifle skin worth of 4gold 50silver. then check greatsword price, “HOLY FAQ 42GOLD?!” good thing that i dont like to use greatsword

CALM DOWN GUYS!! ITS ONLY A SKIN!!

i mean, srsly, i ve seen horrible, horrible companies who put their overpowered weapon into one of those gamble boxes where people spend a faq tons of money to get them. wut happens when they get the weapon? they can at least 1v5.

with so many ppl replying to this thread but no red reply, i bet this is how anet want it to be—a type of collection where not everyone can have one. i want a nice looking skin too, but with my previous gamble box experience, its better off to just buy one from trading post. only a skin, doesnt affect game balance, peace of mind.

totally agree. i didnt even know there r events up in lions arch till i went to the bank in there.

first thing i did, was carving a pumpkin… yea so i guess thats the whole point of it. then i ran into food fight, no idea what i am suppose to do.
i got a quest beside the place where a pumpkin head is shown on map. i received a mail with a meter that eats corn. i read the mail, so i am suppose to scan some ghost(?), but where??? the instruction points to the giant pumpkin head. “oh that must be the place i scan!” i spent five corns circling around that place scanning and found nothing and there r many other people doing the same thing.

i just found out that there s a story line about it, as i was typing “guild wars 2 mad king” into google search.

i m leveling a warrior with hammer/rifle and three shouts, fgj+fm+sif. i chose hammer because it looks cool to have a big hammer whopping at my foes, makes me feel like a pure man, and sometimes i burst out laughing hysterically just because of that.

i bet its so much easier if just type it in google

i want to say charrzooka because it sounds cool, but to b honest, i havent try both yet, cant say no to 30 sec swift

i think op should take a look at other profession forums where they all complain how much dmg 100b could do as it is right now. and maybe try to use the weapon swap mechanic.

with a 4 seconds fully channeled meteor shower which brings down 30+ meteors but normally doesnt hit the same person twice, 100b isnt that hard to land.

i m actually more confused than ever after reading this thread … ?_?

i m staff ele only do some pve and wvw. i run with berserker armor and invader accessories, 30-20-0-0-20, so i should not put any points in fire?? i get 20 in arcane only for staff aoe increase. plz advise

i m a staff ele with 30/20/0/0/20 who only run pve and wvw at the moment, and my story s about the same as op.

i was rocking with an archer in Skyrim before i bought this game, so the first profession i chose was a ranger. Two hours into playing ranger i finally realized that its longbow’s second skill, Quick Shots, which is a channelling spell, can be casted while moving!! Then i quickly realized that most of the channelling spells can be casted when moving, unlike other games like Dragon Nest, archer needs to stand still to do Quick Shots. Apparantly i got tired of playing the ranger after a few days due to its simple(but very effective) mechanic.

i then levelled an ele to 80. first day i went to wvw i was wondering around, looking at this and that, trying to figure out whats going on, then i got chased by a ranger. He jumped down from a hill and started to shoot me, where as i was putting down fields. apparantly he downed me. since i was a ranger before, rightaway i can tell that he was only running around firing quick shots and auto-attacking, only using 2-3 buttons.

I have another three real-life friends playing with me, one is a ranger, one is an ele, and one is a engi. my ele friend basically raged out after getting two-hit in pvp; my engi friend went for a guardian; and i was once in dungeon with my ranger friend(actually its my 1st time in dungeon), my ranger friend was able to type conversations in chat box where i was so busy swapping attunements putting down combo fields.

However i do like the mechanic of having attunements switching around. i have guardian, warrior and ranger, i find myself falling asleep when playing those professions. Yes they can do things more effectively, like my hammer warrior—charge into a mob of foes, group stun group knock down group cripple and hammer away—but i get bored(i dont do sPvP at all).

The problem is, we all glassy, but we no cannon. i use to play another foreign mmorpg that has a mage profession that’s almost the same mechanic as we ele have right now. its got three attunements: fire, water, and air. attune to different elements to use different skill sets. what differs is, by sitting in fire attunements, player gains a huge damage and critical chance boost; by sitting in water, player gains spell channeling speed and some armor; by sitting in air, player gain movement speed. its best damage skill is Meteor Shower(its like every mage from different games has this skill), 3 seconds channeling, same AOE as ours, almost the same graphics, but that one, is a serious nuke. That mage profession is the glassiest in that game, could get killed by warrior or thief within 3 seconds, but its got a cannon. in gw2 wvw, if a player gets hit by a ele meteor shower twice, hes either afk-ing, or he s a seige.

edit: horrible grammar.

have to agree with dargron.

the spiking part is already a short cut to finish someone off, and it already has made some un-balacing due to the fact that some professions have laughable downed state skills where as others can interrupt or escape from a spike.

STRanger.5120:

Simplicity.7208:

However, in order to correct the problem, an elementalist needs to have the ability to fight successfully using only one element. Thieves don’t have to switch from dagger/dagger to win in a fight if range permits. Warriors don’t have to drop that greatsword if their opponent tries to get in their face. Why should an elementalist be required to swap through all elements in order to compete when other classes don’t have to weapon swap in every fight?

Because attunement switching is our class mechanic, so the comparison to weapon switching is wrong. It´s more like Stealth/Stealing or Adrenaline/Burst for that matter….

apparantly attunement switching counts towards weapon swapping. i read it on this post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/elementalist/Tanky-DPS-Elementalist-Videos-included

“You might ask yourself “But I don’t swap weapons as an elementalist!” Attunement switching is considered weapon swapping. The sigil has a 9second cooldown, and the elementalist benefits the MOST of this sigil of any class. Why? Your constantly changing attunements to maximize damage to maximize the CD recharge, whereas other classes change weapons based on situations.”

Avatara.1042:

Vukovic.9320:

Wildclaw.6073:

I only spec 10 points arcane >.>
http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#mcazM9molvMMolvMM0pVxaoaVcsV

Really bad spec.

• The points in air are wasted on inferior traits.
• You split points between two bad minor traits instead of going for a good major trait
• Wasting the 30 point water trait on cantrip mastery is a sin, especially considering cantrip mastery doesn’t even work with mist form.

It does work for mist form 75-60s cooldown
The reason for the air is because it gets me to 40% crit chance while my gear stacks vit, power and some toughness.
I didn’t go 30 in air because 5 in earth gives 130 toughness instead of 50 any other stat and the 10 in arcane give a really useful team/rotation trait.

My build is all about rotating defensive CD’s to mitigate burst while going through standard dagger offensives/elemental/ Firewall+ Arcane Proj

Not to mention I start in air, from there I either mitigate ranged/thief elite with 4. Open with a 5 CC which is where LW and Lightning Touch come in.
Also lightning whip has longer reach then the fire spammer?

After that is when I decide whether to go Fire for damage, Earth to survive an opponents burst or Water for Chilld/Daze/Heal/Cond remove.

I am sorry, but I have to agree with the other guy. Your spec has wasted points and traits. 5 in earth is pretty much pointless, and you really need to check the huge bug list we have.

can i have some more details about the bug list plz? the only bugs i ve found was this one http://www.guildwars2forum.com/threads/11511-Elementalist-Phoenix-skill?highlight=phoenix and i think its still here? havent used S/D for long time. Reading through the forum, seems like theres more bugs about ele but i cant find any details of it.

ioj queue time on last weekend has drastically rised. i used to get about 15min queue time but last weekend i cannot even get into eternal bg, and i have to wait like an hour or so to get to any other borderlands. and tier 1 curse? so no one wanna fight to be the number one now?

oh so thats why we got to dominate this week… where does TL originally come from? seems to be a nice guild— wearing all pink to support fighting against breast cancer

i was just playing wvw in eternal, it seems better to me as i was only standing in a tower watching for potential invaders, every npc or enemy shows up. however there was one time i and two mates fighting a thief, he killed my mate and me and downed another mate, without re-appear from invisible

the wvw is unplayable now. was on a small hill hitting enemy, then warrior spinning effect shows up beside me, i downed, without seeing one single enemy, i got a pole struck through my head.

two minutes later when we res back to that place, i had teammates standing right beside me shootting arrows at the enemy, but i could not see them, all i saw were their arrows fly by.

same as how i feel. why waste all the effort taking the fort when its gonna be gone by the next morning?