Guild Wars 2

Or don’t.

Maybe just get informed, learrn how to play, then stop complaining.

I disagree: fresh air the very best trait we have in order to boost our damage, and by far.
This is because:
- enables us to use our best AA: lightning whip (on the best set: D/F).
- procs electric discharge three times more (and fury if you have 5 points in arcana, for a 70% minimum uptime).
- make the most out of single attunement damage boosts: air training. Before this, single attunement damage boosts were useless.
- enables us to use other attunements with no loss in damage. This is the most crucial point. What I mean is that, before the introduction of FA, if you swapped out of air you would have to spend 15s in sub-optimal attunements before returning to air. People invested in arcana to counter this. This problem is that points invested in arcana are not invested elsewhere, so you gained boon duration and some support but you lost significantly on damage.

As for staff, I am not even talking about AOE. If you can land all your spells (requires an immobile target) then the optimal fire rotation can out-dps a warrior.

Anyway the biggest blow is with LH.

ARM.3912:

Yes, anet nerfed ele’s into the ground and they are worthless now.

As for the guy who says his ele does more damage than warriors: No, you don’t. Stop the lies.

Yes, you do.
And I think that 33% more damage is nothing to laugh at with LH
Staff can deal around 20% more damage.
FA builds can deal comparable damage.
FGS anyone?

As for the armor: signet of earth and poof! I’m a heavy.

It’s very annoying when no one gas condition removal in the group
But I guess warriors also love facing foes like the harpies in the uncategorised fractal!

Bloody hell my “support” deals more damage than warriors!

Do people find this weekend challenge to be too hard?

Hey Shadowfax,

Glad you enjoy it! I have lots of thoughts to share about the build, but I am on a trip with little internet access at the moment so I will reply to you only on Monday.

Have fun!

Excelsior comrades!

This is a friendly reminder for those of you who like challenges with shiny rewards at the end
As part of the Ascension Project , we provide entertaining events for you every weekends. This weekend is the first!

This is a group challenge. You have until Monday the 30th at 03:00 GMT to accomplish it. All entries must provide a video ( please post your entry in this thread ). The first group to accomplish the challenge will get the prize.

Prize: 5 golds, to be split between the group members.

Challenge: “Hollywood-style Hacking”
Complete the hacking event in Crucible of Eternity submarine path (with the exploding golems) by hacking the console one level by one level, with no more than 2s in between hackings.
(Since the hacking takes about 20s, the total time of the event should not exceed 1min48). A player can hack only once. This means that all five members of the group will have to hack in turns.

This challenge has a personal value to me, and it is my birthday this weekend, so make me proud!

Good luck

Comrades, here is the first Weekend Variety Trial !

This is a group challenge. You have until Monday 03:00 GMT to accomplish it. All entries must provide a video. The first group to accomplish the challenge will get the prize.

Prize: 5 golds, to be split between the group members.

Challenge: “Hollywood-style Hacking”
Complete the hacking event in Crucible of Eternity submarine path (with the exploding golems) by hacking the console one level by one level, with no more than 2s in between hackings.
(Since the hacking takes about 20s, the total time of the event should not exceed 1min48). A player can hack only once. This means that all five members of the group will have to hack in turns.

This challenge has a personal value to me, and it is my birthday this weekend, so make me proud!

Good luck

The only thing that lingers with elements is the deception from not being able to combo then.

Am I the only one to avoid warriors like the plague for fractal run with pugs because this class is so week in fractals?

Yes definitely
Scholar runes are a huge damage boost and you can maintain perma fury on the group with 3 blast finishers: magnetic wave, comet and arcane wave. It’s tricky, it’s risky, but the prize …!

Oh the build is 30/30/10/0/0
With:
- ember’s might, burning precision, persisting flames
- the usual air traits
- stone splinters
Gear is Assassin until you have 99% crit with signet of fire and fury and other buffs but not banner, put the rest in zerker (the idea is to swap signet of fire for other stuff when you have the banner buff)
Utilities: arcane wave is required if you are the only fury provider for the group

I haven’t posted about this yet because I want to make sure about a few more things, like the optimal rotation and how high the damage output is, I’ll let you know soon!

I’m not crunching numbers tonight

Edit: sorry for making you wait! I just want to be thorough and make a detailed post.

Ladies and gentlemen I am working on 30/30/10/0/0 spec and it is godly. I will give details soon on the build and rotation

Or make a trigger so that when people return to the lab a huge army of dredge appears and follows you in any fractal you go until you clean them or until you get dredge fractal.

Careful now Dolan, you missed an ‘r’ this time, and we french don’t take spelling mistakes lightly!

I think it’s really boring then, because it would bring an interesting mechanic to the fight.

Could it be possible to bring his defiant down and push/pull him while he is under the meteor shower?

The only true god is Kormir

Scrap that. I did a calculation mistake.

In fact what you need to know is that if you don’t have over 100% crit chance with assassin’s gear then there is no dps difference with berzerker in a full buff situation (might, fury, signet, food, upgrades, banners etc)

In other situations, the difference is small and distributed depending on your buffs.
I still consider this an interesting set because it would allow me to reach 100% crit chance with my build.

I have been working on evaluating the Assassin gear actually. My first estimates are that it is actually quite interesting!
Especially with a fresh air build, since you need high crit chance.
The Assassin gear enable us to reach close to 100% crit chance when you have full air + fury + signet of fire + discipline banner, which means the rotation will not fail.
Apart from that, the increased damage from assassin gear can go from 3% to 12% depending on your buffs.

These are preliminary results. I want to make sure of this before I make a real post about it

So basically you just take away the 10 earth points in Guang’s build to put them in air.

This makes you deal slightly less damage on average.

Am I missing something with tempest defense?

Honestly I am not an expert on WvW.
I do occasionally play it, but I doubt my experience is of any interest to the community:
-I play staff + LH full zerker scholar 10/30/0/20/10
-I am a complete chicken! A nuclear-loaded chicken but a chicken nontheless.

All I do is destroy zergs
my favourite moves:
-abuse terrain to make meteor shower bug and transform into tornado (like on a bridge for example)
-wind gust in a zerg
-static cage, conjure LH, jump, static cage from hammer, bash, jump, laugh at perma stunned zerg, then die.

When roaming I just hope that my Asura ears will help me blend in with the wild rabbits so people ignore me.

Bear in my that I am talking about speedkills. You have to take the situation into account

What is your build?

Nope unfortunately it does not

I am now going to implement the Guardian

Can I have a list of common builds to look at please?

Nice

LW has 300 range

Hey Guang, obviously one of us is making a mistake, or both.
It could very well be me, and you can check all my calculations since you have access to my rotation and to my calculator.

Could you share with me your spreadsheet so I can check for myself?

Thanks

@Dolan: dealing 95% of the damage of a warrior (while running some support traits) is lacking damage?

dude you don’t want to compute that
Even me with my math addiction wouldn’t do that ^^

Hey you know, the good thing for us as well is that we are completely free! Anet has a lot of constraints when designing content (not defending anything, just stating this), but we don’t. That’s why we can be as creative and crazy as we want! Just look at Runeblade’s suggestions, you will hear about them in the near future and you are going to love it

For great justice!

A guild for contributors and contestants has been created
Come along, like-minded individuals!

(contact me or Sanderinoa.8065 for an invite)

@OP wanna make a challenge about it and find out?

No cooldown but ICDs? = engis

If I understand correctly your answer is yes.

Well you’d better be posting in the subforum dedicated to animations and graphics instead!

Maybe in the future if you ask politely enough Anet will release BLTC cosmetic items to change the animations for the player

So you want to play engi but with fire and ice instead of tech?

Well here is my opinion, it is only my opinion so you may discard it as fast as you neurons allow for it:

Removing the attunement cooldown would make us completely over-powered.

This has been stated over and over, that’s why at some point we might as well bring the AK-47 argument. Also if you want to play engi, just go play engi.

Anything past 10 arcana is detrimental to dps in PvE.

Update: added a bit of lore

Hmm this month I am going to spend all my time on the Ascension Project challenges!

It’s a build for speedkills, the build itself is valid, but the figures he computes are not.

Do we have any data on bosses’ condition duration reduction?

Ok then, I’ll see what kind of rotation c/s I get with this

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Deep_Strike

Ok, if I assume that WWA has a damaging range of 150 it would hit a bit less than twice on average on a human-sized target. Since bosses are larger I could assume a 3 hit average.
For a normal rotation you would use it once every other GS swap, for a cd reduction rotation it would be used at every GS swap then.
Just so I am sure: if you swap to GS, use 100b then WWA, your swap cd is back up during WWA or do you need one AA at some point ?

As for rush, I compute a coefficient of 1.70, the wiki states a cast time of 2, how is it like in practice? I expect a smaller animation time due to being in melee

Ok, I used to assume you don’t usually use WWA unless your target is against a wall, should I include it in the rotation then?

Ok roger that.

for the 30/25, since we assume full might, don’t we just always take deep strikes instead of forceful GS ?

but Nike said assumptions are banner of strength and banner of disc, so we assume two warriors?

I need a bit more information to compute dps for each build if you don’t mind (and pardon my ignorance on warrior):
-unless otherwise stated utilities are FGS and two banners?
-what adept trait do you pick in discipline?

That’s also what I am afraid of!