Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking more along the lines of running the no kit rifle power engie build with alch, firearms, and the new spec line. I do not care for Hammer at all, If I can maintain perma swiftness then I will have all I need. It’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out.

As much as I hate that the fact that engie elite spec weapon is hammer I couldn’t possibly think of anything else that would have gone with the theme of the class. I honestly do hope it’s something beneficial and fun for the class. We will see in a few days hopefully….
I hope it has some great form of escape as every time I play my engie and my stealth is on CD and I need to run, I say to myself well this isn’t going to end well for me.

TexZero.7910:

Anet saved the best for last.

Good job, now we can exit the hype train after this week.

So Druid is the best?

Doesn’t understand so it must be cheating…../rolls eyes. Seriously though, this can be achieved using shouts as Puck mentioned ;-)

I find this to be the exact opposite. I can count on one hand the amount of times I’ve DC’ed in GW2 over the past 3 years….You need to check your router/NIC config, reach out to your ISP to check your line, etc.

I really wasn’t going to roll a Rev but that video is freaking amazing and has convinced me otherwise. The class itself seems amazing. Why has every Rev I’ve fought in the beta weekends been trash? I kind of wish I’d come across more opponents as skilled as the OP.

Well that kittening sucks, I just started a new Thief just for the DD spec and he’s been power leveled via crafting. All my other characters are years old and hopefully have at least 150+. Time to venture out into the world…..thing is I’m going to need to gather probably 100+ HP on my Mes, Engie, Ranger, and Necro along side the thief. GG Anet if this is true…

Another great video. Question for you Donee, what are your plans for HoT as far a Reaper goes? Have you been theory crafting builds, etc?

OP is right in the sense that the game is in dire need of a rewards system but his implementation is a bit off. Implement the RvR rewards system from DAOC with a few changes and WvW would change for the better. Some of the kids here who are against change A) think GW2 was the first game to invent WvW/RvR. Don’t know what a real WvW/RvR game is.

However, when the one of the devs says that none of his player base just does WvW only, when no real effort has been put into WvW outside of some kitten tier event that broke WvW for a week (Golem event I’m looking at you), and all the other fails that come with WvW, I really don’t think we’re going to get anything at all.

Where was there ever mention of a level cap increase OP? /bonkers.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/Anet-the-condi-meta-in-WvW/page/4#post5404570

I was ready to go ham on MGS5 on the weekend of the 4th…….those plans have changed. kitten you Anet, HoT preorder confirmed!

I was team rifle, I wanted it…..but this. This data mined info is bananas. If this is real then I think I personally owe the thief dev an apology. I still want rifle but this is well done….if it’s true.

Amazing, can’t wait to get home and equip this.

Sandrox.9524:

Monk is confirmed!!!!!

I still dont see staff as melee,guys it gonna be ranged staff for sure.

If and ONLY if it’s ranged at 1200 then I’d be ok with staff, otherwise I am still Team Rifle.

Wouldn’t it be awesome if they trolled the kitten out of us and expanded the picture only to see a wolf or bird next to the character in the picture and it turned out to be the druid instead?
/runsoffintoacornercryingholdinghislegendaryrifle it’s going to be ok baby, you will get use some day :-(

Came in hoping for rifle, leaves disappointed.

Breaks my heart :-(
My Predator will forever remain in the vault.

Vendetta.1958:

If I’m being honest, Beastly Warden should probably be on a much higher CD than it is. It’s extremely OP in the current state.

What is this madness? No, just……NO! We’re barely being kept afloat, we’re still the black sheep in many aspects of this game and you want to take away one of the very, very few tools we have that makes us unique. Why? There are so many more out of whack things that need to be toned down instead of BW.

Raven.9603:

there shouldnt be 40% condi duration food. it is too much of a benefit over people who dont take the counter -40% duration food.

imagine there was +25% power damage food. Everyone would feel forced to either go power and use that, or take -25% damage food.

Currently, some classes are able to apply conditions at a rate that cannot be counted by any class except maybe necros and Ele’s who are allowed to freely ether renewal. By countered, I mean that on equal footing the counter class is more likely to win, not that that condi class does zero damage. Think of the best condi classes in the game (Necro, Mesmer, Engi, Ranger) and how you would go about building your class to beat them.

How would you beat a good, mostly dire condi necro (~20crit for his crit procs)?

On a ranger, a class with very strong condition removal, you would have to take -condi food, Lyssa Runes, Signet of Renewal, Healing Spring AND Empathic bond with a low-dps high HP pet (maybe 2 of them) to beat a condi-necro that is actually good. Thats 3 FULL clears and 3-4 passively removed conditions per 10sec. Never mind that it would be a completley horrible setup for trying to kill any non-condi player (SOR would be useless, HS has terrible throughput if not clearing condis, low dps pet gimping output), we are just building to fight a condimancer.

If you drop 1 of those full clears, you lose to the good necros. Passive clearing is unreliable, and 2 on demand clears on long cooldowns isn’t enough to stop their onslaught. Switching up to a wilderness knowledge build results in even less condi’s cleared per time.

Same can be said about fighting a trap ranger or engie: The only difference is that with these two, the damage is centered around them, so if you can stay out of ~500 with a ranged weapon you have a better chance. Staying out of range of the necro really isn’t going to happen though.

Condi-Mesmers can be countered with smaller on demand removal (shout clearing, or a full survival wilderness knowledge build), but their access to stealth means you probably aren’t going to kill them either.

It’s not a good state of the game when some of the best condi-clearing classes have to take every single clear available just to have even odds against necros. It’s not a good state of the game where everyone has to take -condi duration food to have a fair shot at beating a condi user. And where does that leave the classes with average to below average removal?

THIS. THIS! THIS right here is why I made this post. Someone who finally freaking gets it.

I have something very similar already made in game for my cloth wearers. Grenth hood, Ascended chest, shoulders can be the skull shoulders (I use human cultural), Arah gloves, Arah Cloth pants, boots can be what ever.

Stealth is on a 40 sec CD. So if that combo fails then what?

Rifle please so I can have some use for my legendary….pretty please with a cherry on top.

Yes, please point me in the direction of a great rifle power build for solo roaming that can stand a chance against heavy condi specs.

God tier engie here. I don’t know how the hell you make it look so easy but that was a pleasure to watch. It makes me realize how bad at this class I am. I’ve only been playing it for less than 2 months off and on and has made me realize I need to greatly improve.

eduardo.1436:

Zera.8907:

Thief and Engie info next plz. Oh and Thief is getting Rifle right Anet? :-)

Please stop.

And on topic look on the right side revenant is practically done so now I just have to wait for my engie elite spec and druid information. I’ll wait patiently sits and watches screen

No.

Thief and Engie info next plz. Oh and Thief is getting Rifle right Anet? :-)

EvilZombie.6801:

ninjazombie.2937:

thank you for the replys

i have already tested ele, thief and ranger as they are mostly the classes i would play

Elementalist is nice, but i would rather class when i have more expierence in the game etc

so its really down to thief and ranger, i love thief because its fast with alot of cool looking moves, Ranger is also nice with the longbow and two handed sword, but the fact that people dont like them in dungeons puts me off ranger a bit etc

ELE you say ELE !!

watch this first before choosing this class

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrQQ9BHEstI

i run engineer and ranger, both are fun to me

as ranger is all long range pewpewpew in WvW and Spvp while in dungeon i usually run with GS and pet passive only force attack target ( alot of sell-pro-calm PRO/ META will tell you “CONTROL YOUR PET”) but my pet could tank the boss on its own and doing a better job then most guard and warr. many times in dungeon im the only one left alive and kiting the boss and still got kicked as i refuse die just to reset the boss

engineer well jack of all trade master of none, good in every aspect many builds you can play around.

if you got bored with bomb kit nvm change to nade build. got bored again change to flamethrower build and etc
currently now im running condi FT build well 15k ++ burning kill most classes in spvp and wvw with a blink

Oh man, the editing in that video has me in tears!

I agree, the velocity of it absolutely needs to be increased.

My vote goes to Donee. His Necro videos are impressive to watch, edited very well, and are full of amazing skill and game play. Other amazing necro players are Bhawb and Jayce as previously mentioned.

Duration is not the issue. Application method can be up for debate but it doesn’t bother me personally. Lack of REMOVAL is what bothers me. My point of this thread wasn’t about power vs condi, which is better or worse, etc. It’s simply about a lack of condition removal.

I hope the new one doesn’t have any stupid features like falling off the world like EOTM does…..

Topic speaks for itself. From 100 to dead real quick. Torment, burning, bleeding, confusion, dead. I have no problem with condition damage being powerful, it SHOULD BE. What SHOULDN’T be is the overwhelming lack of condi removal on all but 1-2 classes. This comes from someone who plays cheese mesmer condi build, cheese engie condi build, even ranger cheese condi build. There’s too much conditions being applied and not enough condition removal.

Team Rifle, lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Phineas Poe.3018:

Zera.8907:

Running Wolfineers Juggernaut build – FT, Elixir B and Elixir S and when ever I engage a Ranger from afar it’s a lost cause. I get ranged down and can’t do anything. I try using Toss Elixir R to engage and eventually I’ll get out ranged again. Do I need to swap Elixir B for the Tool Kit or something. I’m like at a loss.

That just doesn’t sound like a very good build.

The Flamethrower just doesn’t do enough damage to operate on its own. Truthfully if I have an engineer throwing Flame Jets around I just blast a light field and watch them kill themselves to retaliation—or at least deal more damage to themselves than they do to me.

Whether you’re looking for power or conditions the Bomb Kit and Grenade Kit outperform it as far as mainstaying is concerned, and the Tool Kit and Elixir Gun are both substantially stronger at sustain than anything Elixir B gives you.

Use something like this if you really want to stick with the FT. Just understand it’s a hotjoin hero build and is deservedly—despite how fun it is to play—mid-tier at best. You’re going to get dominated especially by signet necros and d/d elementalists, which are both incredibly popular right now. But against rangers it’s all right.

Phineas,

Just to clarify this is the build in question I’m referring to, I realize my OP left out quite a lot of detail. Now that the air has been cleared do you still think it’s a bad build for WvW roaming as that’s pretty much all I do outside of a lil zerg surfing every now and then:

http://www.wolfineer.com/thejuggernaut/

Dimes:

Thank you for the suggestions. I’m going to try and work on that tonight and see how it goes.

So break what’s currently good and make it bad instead of fixing what’s current bad/wrong with tempest? Logic……

I’m not using the FT to engage, using Rifle as that’d be insane to engage with FT.

Running Wolfineers Juggernaut build – FT, Elixir B and Elixir S and when ever I engage a Ranger from afar it’s a lost cause. I get ranged down and can’t do anything. I try using Toss Elixir R to engage and eventually I’ll get out ranged again. Do I need to swap Elixir B for the Tool Kit or something. I’m like at a loss.

I can’t. I use my HGH elixirs offensively and I die to condies. Done with the class for now and it’s a real kitten shame because I enjoyed the hell out of it but in WvW where condi is so prevalent it’s either run or die and you can’t escape a troll build thief or mesmer….

Well D/D Cele Ele will continue to be the go to spec for the class. They should have just given us main hand sword instead. Rather sad…..

If we could get some T4/T5 folk to chime in that’d be great.

I’m looking to get the hell out of T1 so that I can roam again and was gonna jump to T3……guess I’ll need to move some where else. I am tired of fixed matches in T1, I’m tired of the blobbing, I’m tired of the bullkitten. Am I really left with going to empty T4 and above to roam? I don’t want to leave a populated server regardless of how zergy it is to join a less zergy server in hopes of roaming but not have anyone to roam against lol. Honestly I think there may be nothing that can be done at this point for roaming. I’m hoping the expac changes things a bit due to how big the map is.

Can’t wait to play the Rifle Thief!

I love using condi spec on my Engie to destroy OP thieves and Mesmers.

Rifle, Rifle, Rifle! I am praying to god that it’s Rifle.

Ideally what I’d like is an item that can unbound a soul bound item so I can sell my “The Predator”.

Sorry, was this meant for the Mesmer forums? Because they’re the ones who need a butchering.

If Rifle is revealed I’d actually have a use for my Predator (stupid engie)…
Rifle plz.

sephiroth.4217:

Cyninja.2954:

sephiroth.4217:

+1

Ascended drop rates are extremely low, and earning a ring can take a month… That’s 1 ring that will fill up 1/6 slots for 1 character on 1 build.

I don’t get these kind of comments. That’s like saying drop rates for iron ore are low while never mining in the appropriate areas.

Rings are one of the easiest slots to come by. They can get aquired by:

- simply waiting and buying them for laurels (this has nothing to do with drop rates and gives a baseline for how long it maximum takes) —-——— earning a ring can take a month / saving laurels is what I meant

- for 10 pristine fractal relics which take a maximum of 10 days and a minimum of 3 days if fractal dailies are taken advantage of —-—Im a WvW player for 3 years now, level 1 fractal is my level lol, people who know me know I hate anything PvE and sometimes it was guild joke to try and get me to at least the dark room of EB JP without me rage quitting or to even finish a dungeon run without me again, leaving for wvw instead.

- can drop with 25-35% chance at the end of fractals of level 40-50——— same answer as above

- gained via numerous low chance drops from chests from wvw —-——- Ascended drop rates are extremely low………
- etc

How does getting fractal rings take in any form a month if someone wants to gain a ring?

I did it the lazy way and put answers in bold in your quote thing, might help you understand…

TLDR version: I’m a WvW player.

This is pretty much me as well. However, over time I’m now at full ascended accessories and trying to complete a cloth/leather set on my Mesmer (1 armor piece) and Engie/Ranger (2 armor pieces) respectively. I don’t mind pve but I’d rather be killing people instead. I’m not saying lets hand out free ascended gear (as this is already being done but it takes time) but the drop rates in WvW have to be adjusted. Since ascended gear was released just this past weekend I’ve received my first ascended ring drop in WvW….

I’d start here. Tons of good info as previously mentioned. I recently started an Engi myself, about 3 weeks in and I’m still learning the ins and outs but I’m doing pretty good in WvW.

http://www.wolfineer.com/