Yeah, I’m not exactly sure about circumstances. Party-system has been really messed up for a while.
As a last resort, you can try look for people in your server. They might be able to walk-in.
Abusing line-of-sight as a melee and side-step as a ranged is a success in most of the fights.
I will probably kill Champion Karka in ori-land as one guy has requested (unless I have to give up because of people constantly interfering). So nothing fancy
When leveling? No idea because that’s so long ago, probably something crap :P
But now I have 20, 30, 0, 0, 20 focusing on damage. I think Guardian can do it too, probably bit slower because of lower raw damage.
One guy asked me about streaming. Now, I have never streamed and I’m as clueless as one can be. But would people be interested to watch if I streamed like once per week (dungeon runs)?
I’m quite tired of pvt-gear users complaining about my damage.
Care to elaborate? I find that statement rather interesting.
I know how well average person plays this game (not well). When I see people complaining about my damage there is no guarantee for me that person knows what he is talking about. Especially when some comparisons go like “I never see that big numbers, oh and I also use pvt-gear (or whatever non-berserker) because…” or stuff like “my ranged ability does less damage than your melee ability”.
I didn’t really aim this at anyone particularly, just general rant about player-base. :P
Also one thing to realize is that your “melee” skills seem to be 300 range.
I think Warrior damage is bit too high in PvE (6.5 min lupi kill for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ2KTFw3CaI , I rarely do it this fast in pugs..) but honestly I would like to see a proper comparison. I have done my best to find optimal DPS-spec. I’m quite tired of pvt-gear users complaining about my damage.
Yes, I use lossless recording on HDD and GW2 is on SSD (I assumed this would give best performance FPS-wise).
Next time I try disabling AV and see if it goes any better.
I have got this on many other videos but it seems very random.
I have now rendered it three times, and I get skips at exactly same time (raw material is uncompressed so I can barely watch it). I always render when not gaming for best result.
Could it be possible that playing + recording is too much for my computer and record doesn’t get enough juice (I play nearly max settings so that wouldn’t be a big issue).
It has been a wonderful journey but like everything good it must end some day. To celebrate our last few moments together we decided to battle our nemesis once more. Since we were in hurry we had to do it under 7 minutes.
It gets particularly annoying to watch after 50%. If anyone has any ideas how I can fix my videos not messing up like that please tell (in-game it’s all fine).
Thanks for the video! My team keeps wiping on Spider all the time (we are max level, best gear, on teamspeak). It’s great how this game supports so creative tactics! It really allows individual player-skill to shine.
You could duo it. It would be extremely painful and long run (with your experience) but in the end you would have learn it better than most people ever will.
But don’t do it…. yet
What about the huge disparity when some classes do huge damage by reflecting hard-hitting projectiles back (including negating that damage)?
Sure, we can base our whole balance how well classes do against burrows in path 1 (I can tell you how it goes with Warrior: barely).
Or we could ask why is PvE designed like this? Why monsters are passive and dumb? Why don’t they dodge, move out of AoEs, etc? Why CC is so worthless? Why only basic survivability is usually more than enough? Why combo-fields still suck? Why conditions still suck?
I’m honestly interested trying other classes but I simply can’t endure leveling/gearing progress.
And yeah I’m ok with reducing Warrior damage.
I base my 35 minute estimation on duration of normal-speed video.
Your analysis is about right but I have horrible survivability. Most enemies kill me in 4-6 hits (this is exactly what I see some people complaining about their own class). Thing is as long as you can dodge you can deal with almost anything and this is a huge problem in PvE.
Whirling Axe damage isn’t the main reason I use it for , but for building adrenaline and switching to the bow to do it’s burst.
This is very intelligent and an underused combo. I don’t usually elaborate/post (because of so much ignorance on the net) but I will in this case.
Lately I run my 0, 10, 0, 30, 30 build. it’s Axe/Axe with Longbow. I make up for having no trait Toughness by wearing Clerics armor with Runes of the Soldier. Timed weapon switching and a constant juicing of Adrenaline from certain traits allow for very fast burst mixed with good healing and Cond. removal. It’s very affective everywhere in the game.
There are many useful ways to use Axe 5. I often feel it is only shunned because so many people playing MMOs jump on build bandwagons. You can see it everywhere on any forum, ‘math wizards’ who always base their argument on a maximized output. In my experience your personal output in GW2 is more fun and of larger benefit when you spread your stats properly.
If you base your opinion on personal preference and fun then yes you can call anything awesome and effective.
The very point of a maximized output is to get best result. Truth is game is not balanced. Every fun looking build/combo is not effective.
Time you spent toying around Axe 5 + LB burst you could have already killed them with damage-spec.
If you dodge twice, use shield block and use endure pain (long cd so better not use!) it should be over by then.
I don’t run CoF really often and I usually I go to kill gate-lock (as I can do it in about 5 seconds). If you are full damage you might try lock instead
Frenzy, FGJ!, Signet of Might, Signet of Rage.
Try dodge initial flamethrower attack to avoid knockdown (or frenzy to break).
GS BladeTrail → Frenzy → Hundred Blades (hit flamethrower-guy too to build Might) → Axe Eviscerate → Chop chop
Posted this also in your guru-topic but gate-lock killer should kill lock in 5-10 seconds. If you can’t survive that long then something is really wrong.
Detha has bomb-attack which she uses every 25% hp. That clears everything around her (except Champion).
Though I was able to glitch the event and complete it but that was clearly an exploit.
I would really love to see one hard-mode path for every dungeon. This dungeon would not have one clear path (if anyone remembers Sorrows Furnace in GW1) but rather different ways with different challenges (whole area open).
Those videos are just disgusting. Lupicus slowly but surely destroys my guardian if I get focused. Being able to dodge out of his snot bubble of death without popping stability or invulnerability? Might as well be hax. If I get bubbled more than twice in a row, I may as well give up and die, because there’s no way I’m getting out.
Not to mention, he killed lupicus faster than my last group.
It’s a bug which will be fixed. It will be extremely hard (if not impossible) after fix.
Game shouldn’t be balanced around bugs, instead bugs should get fixed.
And if you all guys are ranged and spend half of your time kiting with all kind of defensive stuff half people wiping all the time, it surely takes long.
No hacks, warriors are just that OP, their single target damage is above the skies and yet they want to nerf AoE and increase single target, seriously, aoe doesnt even come close to 50% of those 25k 100blades.
Do you realize melee attacks aren’t usually single target? This is exactly why public opinion is not used for balance.
Seriously I couldn’t help but noticed that there’s alot of hatred towards Warriors in this topic.
LOLOLOLOL 25k HB ANYONE!?! WARZ ARE SO OP!! /sarcasm
You’d have to sacrifice alot of survivability in order to pull off that amount of damage and from my experience inside dungeons, glass cannons tend to be quite a burden on the team.
So instead of complaining about Warriors, demanding ArenaNet to nerf them… why not look for alternatives because I know for a fact that condition builds needs some loving. Like removing the 25 debuff/buff cap in PvE for starters would be nice. Win/win for everyone in my opinion.
Oh look, full glass cannon build i must die from 1 hit easily. Right, right after clearing a whole dungeon alone. And not any dungeon, its Arah we are talking about, i dont see mesmer/thief/eles which are claimed op as well doing the same. Please find me 1 video of an ele clearing Arah alone and i will delete this topic.
Much better complain on forums instead of trying it yourself? Do it on Warrior, then we can talk.
Seriously I couldn’t help but noticed that there’s alot of hatred towards Warriors in this topic.
LOLOLOLOL 25k HB ANYONE!?! WARZ ARE SO OP!! /sarcasm
You’d have to sacrifice alot of survivability in order to pull off that amount of damage and from my experience inside dungeons, glass cannons tend to be quite a burden on the team.
So instead of complaining about Warriors, demanding ArenaNet to nerf them… why not look for alternatives because I know for a fact that condition builds needs some loving. Like removing the 25 debuff/buff cap in PvE for starters would be nice. Win/win for everyone in my opinion.
If an ele sacrifices their surivivability, they get 1/2 the damage from their highest cooldowns, have half the HP, and take multiple times more damage.
One of these things is not like the other.
This clearly shows your ability to understand the game.
It always funny to see people complain about Warrior survivability. Their damage is excellent in PvE because of raw numbers but when every enemy hits like a truck big numbers won’t save you. Unfortunately PvE is so easy that you don’t really need survivability/utility/cc, just raw damage.
Actually I was able to watch the video now. Nice to see you using an Axe, I was planning to use it on my next try (to get 6-7 mins with Banner of Discipline instead of Signet of Stamina). Axe actually allows you to use weapon-swap in full-effect when both sets have good damage (and utilize Sigil of Energy better).
I personally think you will have extremely hard time with Axe/Mace + Axe/Shield (Lupicus can use really nasty combinations).
And I must warn you, on phase 2 that big AoE spawns a lot more circles with 5 players. :P
I usually run 3 sparks, DPS (Warrior damage) and occasionally throw some tears when it becomes too hard for the tear-thrower. If needed I explain a solid tactic or send consumables to everyone.
Last 5 groups I have joined at Dwayna, regardless of team-composition we have got job done in 15 minutes.
And what you described is exactly the problem with skipping. People rush in first as fast as possible so people falling behind (usually most unexperienced) get all aggro, etc. And then they think that they are good. Consider yourself good when your group manages to skip without any casualties.
Primary objective should be clear dungeon as efficiently as possible. Support/Guide your teammates if that’s needed to get job done.
I laughed literally out loud when I read that. I really can’t believe that statement seeing how they have had to at least experience all the dungeon content. It’s hard to believe they were carried through all of it. Path1 and 4 Arah you really have to hold your own weight in and if people are making it through that content I would go out on a limb and say they don’t suck that bad.
If you have a 3 to 4 baddies in a group its really hard for the others to carry the load. There is not a class in this game that can take 100% of the damage all the time.
Laugh all you want. That’s my personal experience. I have so often literally carried teams on Dwayna or Lupicus (and then at the end of dungeon “Yay I got DM”). I have so often seen Dungeon Masters standing in safe-spots (while not an issue alone it definitely doesn’t make them seem better). I have so often seen Dungeon Masters leaving party members behind when skipping (standing few meters away watching one enemy slowly chipping downed health away). I have even seen few DM’s tell me how they know this and this fight better while clearly having no idea.
Running everything once just doesn’t give you enough experience.
I know some good DM’s but they are often on my friendlist.
But I’m really curious why would you want use Axe/Mace + Axe/Shield against Lupicus.
Mace offers little for that fight. Skill 4 gives some Vulnerability with halved duration. Skill 5 doesn’t affect Lupicus.
Axe has great Skill 1. Skill 2 seems more trouble than worth when you can’t dodge during it. Skill 3 is ok.
If you use Eviscerate you lose on-demand Endurance refill. This gets even worse when you have just one burst skill.
Biggest reason for Whirlwind is to constantly have at least 2 evades ready for life-steal attacks in phase 3.
