Guild Wars 2

that’s because i believe it is bugged.

it won’t show all 7 hits + 2 wave most of the time unless you are human male.

my human female only shows about 4 hits so i do about 2k WW but i still take out almost 1/2 of people’s life with it, so it can’t be that person only has 4k life …

in fact, for WW, you actually do more dmg than the dmg counter if you whirl inside the target by setting melee attack assist off.

F4 for the guard is pure OP

if it gets any flashier, you might get hit with a reveal buff

but yea more skins!

i foresee tentacle rage in this thread

it’s simple

we kill the batman…

er…

BillFreist.1527:

We’sa cookin’ uh somethin’ up.

-Bill

can i has some of it

crystal desert or tanish coast…

if crystal desert send 1% of their pve players to wvw, we would be the top ranking server

lol everyone wants a piece of kwbh

scepter/staff will be the new generations of guardians in wvw lol

shield for big fights
focus for small fights
torch for solo fights

i am actually kitten excited!

yea how i wish they drop

you should just try them all and decide which you like best , i am just biased towards knights

if you like it, go for it.

why should you care about any other reasons?

i would suggest knight Greatsword

thank you i almost changed back to male

part 4 with a new look! she’s so pretty in my opinion lol

i do agree that music is the soul

female staff auto attacks are showing delayed damage counters

the gs whirling wrath is not showing 7 hits but 4-5 hits. weird, but in town they are perfectly ok at 7 hits.

is this server lag or my com’s lag?

but i have never experienced these things until i changed from a male to a female toon using the total makeover kit.

is it the change that caused the problem?

yea it drops properly, but the sense is off lol…

it’s important to see numbers in wvw, it feels weird now :S

but i don’t wanna change back because she’s so pretty

:( so it’s not a universal problem?

i wonder if reinstalling gw2 will help

i feel so sad… now i have to spend another 10+g to change back to a male

no other female guardians using staff experienced this?

true, against people who know the hammer or gs inside out, these weapons aren’t efficient at all solo.

i am thinking of going scepter/staff now…

hell yea range guard for the win!

yea, i have seen that before too, i thought it was ANET secretly helping my server to overcome the odds.

i am seeing dmg number delays in the staff auto attack

it only happens for female guards(i created a new one and it is still problematic), the male is ok.

it is not lag because my female Greatsword is ok.

so does any other female guardians experience this?

is it a bug or something unique to my character?

any help appreciated.

Video to illustrate the point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZrGHcOaXAk

EDIT: my whirling wrath (gs#2) now only shows 4-5 hits, not 7

it shows 7 only in LA’s dummy or mist golems, in the normal zones it doesn’t.

i wonder is this server lag then?

foofad.5162:

I’m not going to argue with you. It’s what I run, and it works. Pugs, zergs, bounties, roaming, whatever.

i see it as a discussion

glass cannon builds will work in dungeons only if you have 4 other people who know what to do and are spec to kill.

i don’t believe a glass cannon guard will survive in wvw . maybe 1v1 you can kill before killed.

zerg fights, i don’t think so.

i created a new female and male guardian

and only the female one has this problem..

i created a new female and male guardian

and only the female one has this problem….

is there a bug with the auto attack of the staff?

there is a delay in the dmg numbers popping up for the auto attack.

wave hits first, then dmg numbers pop up.

my greatsword has no problems so it’s not a lag issue.

i have never experienced this until i used the total makeover kit today.

did anyone else experience this? any ideas? thanks.

VIDEO to show : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZrGHcOaXAk

i just used the total makeover kit and i realise the female staff auto attack has delayed number popping out?

the wave will come out first and then the numbers will appear.

my greatsword has no problems, still the same. only the staff auto attack is like that.

anyone else has any idea?

VIDEO to show : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZrGHcOaXAk

foofad.5162:

WW isn’t much of a DPS boost unless you’re hitting 4 targets or more, because you can’t cleave more than 3 targets at once with autoattack. So you’re right in not using it except in certain circumstances. Plus autoattack keeps your might stacks going.

Secondly, damage multipliers are all summed up and multiplied out together at the end of the damage calculation (before crits). In other words, if you have 10% more damage, you’re doing 1100 instead of 1000. Gain another 10%, your multiplier becomes 20%, and now you do 1200. Where you may be getting confused is that by adding trait points to your build in order to actually get those multipliers, you’re also adding stat points, which can make it look like it’s cumulative when it isn’t. In other words just to get Fiery Wrath you’re also adding 100 power, so compared to a build without it it’s going to look like a much larger boost than 10%.

Also, yeah, 5k WW is pretty sad. Keep in mind that the 36k 100b Warrior is stacking Vuln and Might like crazy in order to accomplish that. I regularly get 16k+ WWs in groups with warriors because of all the Vuln and Might flying around. Also, 100b is just ridiculous, but whatever.

If you’re looking for maximum damage, 10/25/x/x/x with all zerk gear is a good place to start.

well, but gw2buildcraft’s effective power calculation uses culmulative %increase not flat % increase. i didnt add power, i only added the elusive power trait which doesn’t include any attack modifiers.

how does effective power translate to actual dmg though, it is a mystery to me.

yea 16k WW sounds cool until you drop dead faster than you can cast WW in WvW

no, it is polite

rude is to accept and have a verbal re-duel

but i usually accept because i like to engage in trash talk.

i am after all a forum warrior/troll

lol just pretend he has RI

yea thats why people all go major. weird.

nobody will get an underwater legendary unless the whole continent sinks in the new expansion pack

but i have to agree it looks cool

and i like your signature

is it weird if i prefer to read thrash talk forum threads over actually playing the game?

i think wvw needs a revamp

~needing to press F to pick stuff up when i should be fighting.

~Guild Wars that don’t have official Guild Wars

~Guild Wars that is better known as Zerg Wars

~Fighting the SAME SERVER for eternity

~Point system doesn’t ring a bell in me because 1 day after reset, the server with the highest coverage is ahead by a few thousand points. A few more days and it’s a runaway victory.

~same scenary and maps

~I became a PvDoor champion (a new title is needed for number of pvdoors)

~Skill lag in mega fights

~Stealth is not OP but it’s unfair

~Need more unique armor/wep/cape skins for WvW , there need to be an identifier to guilds. i am not talking about kiddy flags on the back… how about some real COOLKitty Capes that make you look awesome

~Maps are too huge in my opinion, can be thin down to 3/4 size

~Waypoints are useless because they are always contested. the way upgrading works is also discouraging.

~killing people gives the most exp, escorting yaks/repairing etc gives you meagre returns. we are encouraged to zerg but discourage to do other meaningful things.

~traps… GTFO… especially stealth trap…

~Most importantly, there is no impetus to play. there is no competition. before you enter a fight you probably already know who will win, who will lose.

Lycoris.7068:

This is my little ele ^^

you got taste my friend, would be cooler if that was a thief

true… in fact i am starting to use auto attack rather than WW in WvW because of the better mobility and also it hits about the same in a given time.

yea until you see a warrior hit 36k on lupicus with hundred blades.

which tells me if you max stack dmg it will be pretty insane.

so my WW of 4-5k dmg is crap.

well goodbye my coolest guard, now it’s time for beauty!

10+ gold burnt for the makeover kit

edit: dam, screwed up the eyes and have to pay another 10+ gold

last pic the new look

if it is as you said , then i will have to demolish my build again

but it also depends on where your current crit% dmg and power and critchance.

at baseline stat, 40 power is > 12% crit dmg because of low crit chance

and the way buildcraft’s calculator calculate effective power is weird

it uses cumulative % increase for effective power for dmg multipliers.

this means that if you have 10% increase, and your effectpower is 1000, you get 1100.

if you have 20% increase you now get 1100 + 10% of 1100 = 1210

shouldn’t it be 20% increase of 1000 = 1200?

then there’s the other thing about DPS, i counted the number of hits it takes for me to down a mob and it seems they are about the same for 60% crit dmg and 72% crit dmg.

my power and prec went up by about 40 and 20

does this then mean 12%crit dmg is about 40power/20prec? lol i wonder…

yea as i thought..

seems like the holy trinity of power/critc/critdmg is key. multiplier is a bonus that i haven’t grasp its potential yet.

but my only bonus of elusive power seems to make me hit a few hundred more only.

woah, since when did JQ lost top spot.

SOR is top?!?!

well dam, i just dropped 12% crit dmg for more power and crit chance.

i still hit the same at around 4-5k raw.

my crit dmg at 60 and 72 issn’t much of a difference that i can see

Juzbeingme.1596:

so divinity runes + zerker acc’s and anything other than crit% on my weaps…because i do care about maxing out my gear in the best possible way…
just that im not sure about what to do on my weap stats then…maybe some PVT weaps or something?

there’s another problem, in that max stats doesn’t mean max performance.

so it boils down to what you want to play as. because divinity/celestial although has the most stats, is very spread.

you will never heal better than a cleric, you will never deal more dmg than a zerk, you will never hold better than a tank.

so you will be the jack of all trades master of none/balance.

also, i would recommend knights on weapons because i am biased

mrauls.6519:

foofad.5162:

Any build that claims to do damage that is lacking Fiery Wrath at a minimum is kidding themselves. If you really want to kill stuff you need Fiery Wrath and Radiant Power.

Why do you say this? Also, what do you hit for on a normal whirling wrath

i am curious mrauls, with your 100%+ crit dmg, what do you hit with WW?

does 10% , 20% crit dmg make a huge difference?

yes they affect everyone

blurps.2340:

Tarkus.4109:

Dragons would be the ultimate counter to the Arrowcart meta

Arrowcarts > Dragons

LoLed… comment win