Guild Wars 2

when I copy/paste that there is only 10/0/30/0/0…but warrior already has high HP I dont think great fortitude is necessary, maybe zerker power better. Also, gain adrenal on hit is good for adrenaline hungry builds but I personally prefer the balanced stance trait. Endure pain is good, that has saved me so many times. And if this link is right it has fgj, sio, and fear as the utilities, and axe/axe as weapon…if you want to spin2win you definitely want some type of stability to pop before spinning cuz nothing worse than activating it getting 1 spin hit in and knocked down, skill goes on cd…

IMO gs + sword/wh is best for leveling warr, at least very fast leveling. Use all the signets and just hb everything, use sword/wh when u need to get out and kite a little while heal on cd. The mobility in gs 3 and 5, plus sword leap and swiftness get you from heart to heart, event to event in no time…I can get across a map faster than a thief (not in combat that is), by using SoR, gs + sword/wh, bulls rush…cycling them..
As an 80 warr you sustain health by dodging mostly. For my warr I wear zerker everything but have defensive traits for endure pain trait and use utility endure pain, so thats a lot of damage absorbed. I like to use vigor food (bowl of orrian truffle and meat stew, something like that i think) plus gs 3 acts as a dodge. Warrior is about killing before getting killed.

axe/shield + sword/warhorn definitely. Mace is nice for 1v1 but, when does that ever happen…very rarely, at least in my tier, tier 1 that is. The axe/shield will allow you to do good damage, even in the middle of a zerg, using block to get out…then when your block is up switch to sword/wh and leap out (turn auto targeting off and be sure to not have anything selected). I used to use this and it was quite fun, physical utilities, could 1v1 1v2 no problem and run right into a zerg and start swinging axe til time to disengage and always get out…also the mobility of the sword/wh is too good for wvw, you get across the map with the quickness. I could take on 2 thieves with this type of setup, if you can land your bull rush, bola (sketchy tho), traited 1 sec immob, you can down a thief easily. If you can’t land those you got your leap and warhorn to get out…

1. I wear berserker gear and weapons, cavalier back, 2 soldier rings, knights earrings and amulet

2. I use ruby orbs

3. I use ruby orbs, but I like strength or battle, currently saving gold so this is main reason for the orbs atm..

4. I spam it, use 4 symbol for retaliation and use 2 in the symbol for cleansing bolts, then use 3 for leap finisher retaliation

5. I am currently running 0/0/30/20/20 – I take purity so I can use the blocking healing skill, 2nd slot is a toss up between a couple of the traits depending on the fight, but I like the shield so the cd reduction is nice, then AH. In honor I take shout 20% recharge, and 2h 20% recharge. Virtue is a toss up as well, but I like the 10% dmg when have aegis and I like the stability with VoC or the VoR condition removing.

That being said, I do not claim to be a master of the guardian, I have been trying many builds, this is the profession I have the least playing time and craft leveld…I have a support ele so I didn’t really want to go that route just yet. I wanted to test the damage a guardian could put out so thats why the zerker gear. Like you said, with all the regen, protection, and other boons you constantly have, I felt that many people put too much into defensive stats so I went the opposite and have been really enjoying the playstyle. This profession has the lowest hp and toughness (I think, top of my head) of all my toons (warr,mes,ele,guard) and puts out damage close to my warr and mes with great survivability from the up time of boons. The shouts allow me to stay in melee in rough situations and when I absolutely need to disengage i’ve got my block heal AND that elite that recharges virtues that makes you invulnerable (on a short cd too..OP)

Nice. Thanks, didn’t know about the outlaw working with those mobs.

To the mods – sorry if this topic is in the wrong section, I could see it being in, dungeons, players helping players, and general discussion. I hope it’s ok to post here, if not sorry.

I’m wondering if you guys know which slaying potions go to the different fractals mobs.
Maybe someone has done some testing/experimenting…
At higher level fractals I wanted to start using them to my benefit and have acquired all the different types. One day I was using the grawl potion in the grawl fractal and when we got to the end boss (flying grawl harpy thing) a player in my party noticed the grawl consumable I was using and told me it was the elemental potion for this fight. So this has led me to post this in the forums to get the correct potions for the specific fights.

Jelly fractal
-krait – krait potion
-jellyfish – ?

Grawl fractal
-grawl – grawl potion
-shaman (first guy with the stones) – grawl potion ?
-endboss shaman – elemental potion?

Snow svanir fractal
-svanir fire pit – svanir potion
-ice elementals – elemental potion
-svanir end boss – svanir potion

Ascalon (charr) fractal
-vet mobs – ? (was told the AC ghost potion)

Harpy fractal
Harpies- ?
Champ rabbit – ?
Vet bomb mob – ?
-shaman fire guy – ?
-champ ettin – ?
-robot mobs – ?

I think you guys get the picture (typing this on my phone has been a hassle). I know some of those mobs don’t need a slaying potion for the fight but I’m just curious if there is one that corresponds to the encounters…And sorry for the botched mob names and fractal names, can’t remember them exactly off the top of my head.

Thanks for any input.

Yes, I am that mad about the cooldown on spykits, I will QQ hard on this. Why change this?! I used them for soooo many things. If you wanted a cooldown on them you should have implemented it from the beginning, there was no need to change them. Am I the only one that thinks this is ridiculous?! Also, I did not see this in the patch notes, maybe I missed it? If not, why do you do these stealth changes Anet, its just so rude. Please tell me there are others raging about this, I feel they are almost useless now. A one minute cooldown isnt even worth using it for the things you could use it for, I mean it’s for PvE…cmon smdh..

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This is so awesome! Great job! It goes to the beat and everything, and omg the asura robot dancing is soooo perfect, hilarious! Again, that asura with the sunglasses is the bomb diggity!

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How I use the Scepter (WvW, PvE applies as well)
-Spam 1 as you come to your target, this gets rid of the first two balls, hit your target with the 3rd = quick clone
-For the block, if you are running away use it, if your are fighting (preferably up close) press again for the blind (easy to miss so make sure to have good LoS)
-3 skill, make sure to be in range to get full damage/confusion
-Closer you are to your target the faster the balls are and produce clones (I like to run circles around my opponent)

WvW
- cast iWarden, lay temporal curtain on top of iWarden, by now warden should be spinning, close curtain, enemies get blasted
- Near cliffs, lay temp curtain at the edge, close curtain, watch them fly, if they don’t fall off the edge get bonus points and swap to GS and hit a homerun with illusionary wave
- keep defense – drop portal, temp curtain the mass of enemies, hop down, mirro images, diversion, illusionary wave on rammers…
- learn edges and cliffs you can blink up to (very helpful)
- have a set with centaur runes
- GS skill 2, clone on target, interrupt
- double dodge = 2 clones, decoy = 3, send them into the zerg
- use staff chaos storm right before fighting to get easy buff or 2, quick switch back to primary (same with bubble or armor)
- time warp stomps & time warp building siege
- sometimes its nice to try to look like a clone (moving like AI)
- bubble ballistas
- illusionary wave on gates
- watch people get on tower edges, curtain them, blink to port, aboutface, illusionary wave
- warden & beserker on gates
- curtain ppl building siege
- curtain ppl trying to rez downed & illusionary wave ppl trying to rez (bonus points for catching thieves invis and then batting them lol)
- with thieves be careful not to shatter so quick, try to keep one out it will show you where they are

mesmer forums brah, and that’s not what I care about, boons on my phant and I’m shattering ha what a joke

There are 10 pages of mesmer topics with no Anet response, I stopped at 10, that was enough…sure not all are QQ, but really, inform your customers/playerbase, respond to their frustrations, or else you will lose their business.

It is ridiculously noticeable how much you guys are changing the mesmers skills and phantasms, especially the beserker, and it’s disgusting! I have video since launch of beserker and it’s animations/casting hits and movements, god has it changed so much. And you guys don’t even include these changes in the update notes, as well as everything else you guys change behind the curtains. People that don’t notice these changes either don’t pay attention to the class or have only recently created a mesmer. I will admit the mesmer was OP and I understand changing and balancing certain skills, but what I don’t understand is the lack of informing the people that play this class recieve. The scepter is crap, the torch is crap, the staff is crap, movement speed is crap, using a focus is crap, mirror blade is crap, mind stab is crap, and now beserker is crap. You feel me dawg, inform us, or state it’s a bug, or something, because we know you are changing stuff, and not explaining the changes. I am sick of these stealth changes!

For those that haven’t noticed, the beserker misses quite often now, never before, the first time they changed it and said it wasn’t a bug nor did they nerf damage (yea right total bologna) then they put in that malarkey with clones/phant/ill not spawning cuz of evade/block and whatnot (more bologna take away our shatter skills gg gj good idea your so smart at balancing) now beserker is a brain dead imbecile that upon skill activation misses, doesn’t attack immediately or even seconds after activating, and even will run next to a target like he’s going for a jog. What is this carp really?

I know I’m raging but I can clearly tell the difference, and even to backup my observations I watched the captures I have over time from launch and it’s there, the evidence would lock away a guilty man, without a doubt.

First time making a video and stuff, so it’s nothing fancy, just threw together some of the clips I got…

If you are actually involved in WvW you would know how to defend against a portal bomb, there are ways, learn them. I’ll give you a few tips, watch for stacking, watch for enter portals (sometimes mesmers can’t drop the enter on the inside of a tower/keep), call out those portals ask whose portal is this, use your skills for bombs (guardians/thieves you figure out which skills, maybe back off the bomb so you dont die, yes they will destroy siege but this is a tactic for defense/offense, and of course always mesmer sweep (learn the hiding spots). I understand the frustrations with culling, which Anet needs to work on, but I for one don’t have that big of an issue with portal bomb culling, more perma stealth thieves for some reason. I play a mesmer on T1, and as much as I try to plant, I often get killed because these “skilled” players know the hiding spots. I’m not going to say learn to play, but I am going to say learn to defend and strategize, it’s all part of the game.

Yes, I understand that they are not exploiting in that spot, but it makes me wonder if they are trying to jump around that spot to get in. They were not attacking and just kept coming back about 5 times, jump, jump, jump, fall, come back, jump, jump, jump…wasn’t really helping his teammates siege, seemed to be just looking for an exploit. That’s why I’m skeptical…

What’s this guy trying to do? Get in inner through some exploit? He kept coming to that spot and would fall then comeback…Not sure if he was just messing around but his teammates were siegeing our inner gate. Also, if I remember correctly, I saw someone posting in the JQ/SBI/SoS score topic about a MORD member exploiting another keep/tower.

In the other picture, there was a necro below me and he was able to AoE the siege I was using. I don’t know if this is an exploit or not, but I don’t think he should be able to target that spot, it’s pretty far away and not to mention the LoS and a bridge between us.

So again, not trying to start any drama, just hoping devs can see this and fix these, that is if they are an exploit/issue.

I am sick of having to PvE to make money! I like to contribute with siege in WvW and one day want to be a commander, but idk how people afford siege/repairs/gear…I have 2 sets of exotics so I’m pretty set on gear but still would like to acquire more. I am saving badges for 3 more invaders accessories and would like to also save the 500 for legendary down the road, so I can’t really spend my badges on siege. Does anyone share my rage? I don’t want to run dungeons over and over or farm or play the trade post, I just want to WvW, but I am forced to PvE, I don’t like this. Drops in WvW were said to be increased, but I have not noticed any increase in loot. I don’t like SPvP, it’s not the same…

Do you feel you make decent gold in WvW? How do commanders afford so much siege? Have you noticed an increase in WvW loot?

Idk maybe I am just complaining, but please do not flame me for sharing my thoughts.

I didn’t read the whole thing sorry, TLDR. But I did read the first paragraph and from that I suggest the AC exp power/tough/vit set. This will be the easiest/fastest set to get, in my opinion. I would replace those monk runes with crest of the soldier for even more power tough vit and you will have much better survivability. Or if you felt the set gave you the survivability you wanted then replace the runes with more damage dealing stats. Maybe mix and match accessories for what you are looking for.

I don’t know how you guys are playing but I have found the warrior playstyle very entertaining. I leveld a mesmer to 80, full exotics and whatnot, wanted a warrior for tagging and pve mostly, but have been having a blast with it in WvW. I use pretty much all of the weapons, depending on the situation, but my favorite is Axe/Shield & Longbow. Utility I use shake it off, bull’s charge, and bolas. I wear power/tough/vitality gear and I do decent damage. It feels SO good to execute a good stun chain on a target and watch their health drop. Eviscerate is nice nuke and axe 1 does decent damage. Traited leg specialist immoblizes the target for 1 second which is nice. Idk if your bored then you should change it up, trait for a different weapon, work towards a different set of gear. This will completely change your playstyle. You could be a shout/heal warrior, Hammer KD’s, Sniper, sword condition bleeds, mace tank…

I am in all beserkers gear, and yes it is good, along with my pure power, direct damage build. But like Rapid said, you have to know when to fall back. You can get right in there and start blowing people up but if you get focused – dead. I use blink, decoy, and mirror images for my utility. Blink breaks cc and gets you far away, decoy does as well (I think), and mirror images gives you 2 quick clones for damage or distortion. I personally like to save my mirror images for defense, unless I’m clearly winning the fight.

Not sure if this has been suggested before, didn’t look, sorry if it has.

What I would like to suggest is a small hotbar maybe between the chat log and skillbar or between the skillbar and the map.

I like to often switch weapons depending on the situation and I understand that you can keep a small window of your inventory open but I feel it is too bulky. While some of us do not have large screens to play on this inventory window takes up quite a bit of space. I personally prefer playing on a smaller screen and do not like the space that the inventory window takes up. The window shows the borders (too thick), bags to reorganize (not necessary for quick swapping), and the search feature (does anyone use that?). I’m thinking just a small bar with icons of the weapons available to that profession. If the player does not have a certain weapon then it is a blank space like in the inventory, but if they have 1 weapon (soulbound), then it would register in the icons. The bar would register in the order the weapons are organized in the inventory, so if you have two of the same weapons (different sigils), the weapon that is ordered before the other would show in the icon bar. When you double click the icon of the weapon you’d like to swap to, that weapon is equipped while the current is un-equipped.

Hopefully Anet reads these suggestions and can possibly implement this in the future.

Sincerely,
Players with small screens.

Guys, while I feel your frustration, you need to understand that not everything is perfect, this content was free, and these poor developers are doing everything they can with the manpower they have. A free game is going to have limited manpower, so just work with them and be appreciative of what you have.

*gets off knees

Ok in a similar post a forum mod has posted that we cannot recieve the 5 CCC’s as they could not effectively fix this. It’s unfortunate that I wasted a lot of time standing around for these NPC’s and I understand they are doing their best and am glad to have gotten some confirmation. But dang…

Just for a little more clarification, at this time we cannot progress after we recieve the jug of karma and cannot recieve the 5 CCC’s, nor will we be able to at all.

I waited at Noll for a couple of hours before trying overflows, as soon as I did that I was able to complete Noll. I then went to Canach and again waited hours to fight him while he was spawned, also tried hopping overflows but this did not work like Noll. Today I waited again for quite sometime and finally Canach was able to be fought. I received my karma and proceeded to speak to Zommoro which is no longer available…Like I said I am fine with missing out on the CCC’s, although that would be somewhat lame due to my participation in the events (waiting hours…) I just want some confirmation!

I am confused because I thought you had to do the investigation in order, it that’s true, then how were we to get the Miyani part if Noll and Canach were bugged since the beginning?

So does this mean I missed out on the 5 CCC’s? I’m fine with that, I just want to know for sure…

I am also waiting for the option to open.

I received the jug of karma, so I’m good to continue but yea no option still…

Your are supposed to speak to Miyani and Zommoro, and select the option about the Karkas but there is no option. Are we still able to progress without this option? She is supposed to send you mail after you zone out but since you can’t select the option then you don’t get the mail…

hmm, meant to edit but deleted…o well thanks for the info

I just tested this and blink wouldn’t let me go down, even small drops, must be bug.

I shatter ALL the time, I use all 4 as much as possible, it works very well, when the clones actually work. I was just in AC and multiple times I would hit Mind Wrack and the clones would run up to the target and freakin stand there, not shattering, the mob would die then they would shatter of course. Are the dev’s worried about us being overpowered? I want to kno if the stupidity of the clones is on purpose, because it’s really starting to irk me. Iam depending on my skills to work properly and they are failing me greatly. They have been pushing shattering with the updates but yet this is what we have to work with, no wonder no one wants to use shattering builds, its flawed.

@gamefreak, I don’t play the other classes, but I could imagine its similar. I too have the issue with my clones running off and shattering mobs I’m not fighting adding additional mobs…so frustrating

Like Trick said this is at the bottom of their list, your better off just leveling a class that can actually tag mobs.

I love shattering and I love mesmer but I get quite annoyed when I really need a 3 clone Mind Wrack on my target and one, even two clones go off and pop on the little bunny thats close, which totally effs me in the a. Anybody else having this issue?

Also I would like to see maybe a small health bar on my phantasms to know when I should shatter before they are killed….I know it shows there health above their head but my mouse is often busy doing other things…man there is so much room for improvement on this class…

30/30/0/0/10 is my build – requires shattering – mirror images – clone on dodge – GS training most important

Mesmer PvE is like playing the piano, you just gotta gracefully movearound, pushing the right buttons. Shatter, shatter, shatter, dodge, dodge, dodge, kite, kite, kite….

I run 30/30/0/0/10 build for maximum damage. Beserker gear and accessories. Rune of the scholar. I use GS as main and Sword/Focus or Scepter/Focus for switching. When I feel like being defensive I use the AC Power/Tough/Vitality set…I’m pretty good at dodging and kiting so I don’t have to use the defense set but it’s nice when I’m feeling lazy. My build requires shattering for max damage. Traits I use are: Empowered Illusions, Mental Torment, GS Training, Far-Reaching Manipulations, Phantasmal Fury, Deceptive Evasion, and Compounding Power. Utilities depend on the situation but mostly use : Blink, Decoy, Mirror Images, and Elite varies as well but I mostly swap between Mass Invis and Time Warp.

I do this with greatsword, get my 25 stacks, then switch to 5% damage with my rune of the scholar for 15% damage, my numbers are high.

Mesmer, have fun with DoTs in Orr

Yes @Mithran, that would be even better having sections, I was thinking a low character notes tab would be easier and faster for them to input.

Idk the numbers but I have had better time killing things faster with full on beserkers gear/accessories. Can’t help a whole lot bc I dont care for condition damage, seems more fit for a necro. Also my precision is not that high in full exotic 51%, I feel like I crit quite often so I went with power, eat precision food maybe?

1. I have had the most success from a DD shatter build, dont really think codition damage is top for mesmer, more like necro…
2. Can’t really help there I use GS FTW, I’m sure there is a build in these forums for you but I think best is to try things out. Probably gunna have to sift through these forums and review all the builds for what you like.
3. Again not my style so can’t really help but do you want toughness (chaos) or precision (duelist)
4. Depends on your build and playstyle. I run power/prec/crit damage full glass cannon so my points are 30/30/0/0/10

Not sure if this has been suggested didn’t look but just thought of this.

Since the game seems to lack grouping for anything other than dungeons and karma farming orr, I think it would be nice to have a notes tab for all players where they can put in a couple lines of what there goals for the day are. For example, listing the dungeon paths they would like to run, the map zones they would like to complete, DE to farm, material farming, wvw grouping, and spvp tournaments. With this, people could look in there friends list, click on there friends notes tab and see what there GoTD are and then invite them for grouping.

Also a personal notes tab would be awesome for storing game information like item links, recipes, dragon waypoints, and other important waypoints.

Sorry if this has been suggested.

I use GS and love it, the damage is better than staff for my build. I am running a pure damage build, so my stats are all power, precision, crit damage. I run 30/30/0/0/10 to get as much power/prec/crit dmg as possible. I wear beserker gear including accessories you could say im glass cannon.

Hi, appreciate the response, I’m in full beserkers gear as well as +power +precision +crit damage build, along with beserker accessories.

Was pretty much asking opinions on that 10% damage, really trying to do as much damage as possible….

Im thinking that my precision is high enough and that I crit quite often, but its only at 50% in rare’s, Im asking because Iam about to purchase my exotic set

Guardian if you ever wanna support, Warrior if your selfish (which is fine), I am selfish on my Mesmer

I was told there isn’t any legendary armor in the game yet…

2nd topic I have created, 2nd topic with 0 responses

Thanks, love the community