Guild Wars 2

- Counterblock: When you click the key, the block does not react fast enough, it takes
like half a second before he raises the mace to block an incoming attack, usually it is far
too late then. It would make the mace a lot better if it could initiate block faster.

- Shield Bash: When you leap at the target, you just stand there hugging the target for
half a second, before the animation stops and the bash connects and hits. This makes
it incredibly easy to dodge this attack, and I doubt it was intended, it looks silly as well
to hover in the air with the shield raised while you wait for the skill to finally connect.

I thought I mentioned this because the latest patch notes indicated an intention to
have the mace become a viable warrior weapon, and many people use shield along
with it.

The popular pets got nerfed the hardest though.

But yeah I don’t understand why they nerfed pets at all, what could be the reason?

Ranger damage is already “balanced” around pet damage, so why would they want
to nerf pet damage? It’s not like rangers were doing too much damage.

It seems they just looked at which pets were used almost exclusively, and then nerfed
those pets into the ground to try and get rangers to use other pets as well. They didn’t
want to upgrade useless pets because of “power creep”.

Reminds me of the crossfire nerf, so people wouldn’t “spam auto attack” so much. I did
not know what I was reading when they used the term “spam” in relation to crossfire,
considering it is the only shortbow skill that does some damage.

I think the way evade works now, is one of the most perfect mechanics of the game,
please don’t change it. Evade by default should cause ALL skills the miss, no exception.

I think having skills go through block, was bad enough. It should’ve never happened,
but making skills hit through evade, would make matters even worse.

I think it’s not about just adrenaline, it’s mostly about how lackluster the Discipline
trait bonus is. Giving a 3% damage bonus on burst skills, is just unacceptable, as all
other professions get a worthwhile bonus in their profession trait line.

Someone suggested to give +2% chance to give a strike of adrenaline per hit. So if you
place 30 points into Discipline, each hit gives you a 60% chance to grant one extra
strike of adrenaline. I think that is the only solution I can think of or have heard of so
far. I think 2% is perfect, as 1% would be too low a bonus again, and just as useless. It
is so that you’d only get 30% chance for an extra strike in most builds anyway. Most
people do not place 30 points in Discipline for any reason, they place 15 for faster
weapon swapping.

Many combo fields are really weak with solo or small groups of players, if you tone
them down even further just so massive zergs aren’t too strong, they’ll be completely
useless in spvp and tpvp and anything but wvw zergs.

I really don’t think wvw zergs should be any consideration what so ever in skill balance.

The opponent can zerg too, so all you do is slow down the time one zerg needs to kill
another. If they win with the combo fields, they’ll win without them as well, so really I
don’t see the point in considering zergs when addressing skills and mechanics.

Combos are an important part of the game, if anything they should be toned up, the
might buffing with blast finishers in fire fields seems fine, but some combos are far too
weak. Giving one second of retaliation or two seconds of fire shield really isn’t very
useful. In zergs it may be different, but considering zergs in skill balance is pointless.

lordkrall.7241:

The Longbow is already very useful in WvW, adding these changes would make it quite OP.

Not all weapons are supposed to be useful for all builds. That’s one of the points of different weapon sets.

There is more to GW2 than shooting arrows from a wall in WvW though. And most
warriors use a rifle even for that. Since kill shot will take down most wounded players
in one hit. You say longbow is good for wvw, I say rifle is even better for wvw, and rifle
is better for all other content as well.

The rifle is just far better, it is even able to strike with (piercing) aoe attacks, which is
meant to be the bow’s niche.

The only reason I don’t use it, is because I just don’t like guns, and I know most warriors
who use the longbow over the rifle, which aren’t many, do this for the same reason.

I’m not saying the longbow is useless or a bad weapon, I only ever run with longbow
and axe/warhorn (as sylvari it is cool roleplay too), but I think it is obvious that the rifle
is just more powerful, has better traits, and far more warriors run with rifle than with
the longbow. I’m not really saying to bring the weapon longbow up to par with rifle, I’m
saying to bring the longbow traits up to par with the rifle trait.

We get one trait to make longbow range the same as the rifle range, and one trait to
get +10% damage on burning targets, which is a tier 2 trait, where far better traits can
be found, such as shout cooldown trait or warhorn trait.

My suggestion is to either make the stronger bowstrings trait a bit better in tier 1, or
make it significantly better in tier 2. If you make the base range of longbow 1200, as it
really should be anyway, it is a longbow after all, then you get more options for trait
changes.

Burning Arrows trait moved to tier 1, it is just too bad to be tier 2.

Stronger Bowstrings moved to tier 2, and renamed to Exploding Arrows, the base
range of longbow becomes 1200 (makes no sense for a LONGbow to have such short
range), and the trait now gives 20% skill cool down, as well as give Dual Shot a small
explosion radius so the auto attack can hit multiple targets if they are close to each
other.

Though I would accept any change at all to make the longbow on par with the rifle.
I think the rifle has far more utility and use due to its high damage, the longbow needs
to be improved to become just as good as the rifle.

No matter what you say about the longbow, good for aeo or whatever, warriors use
the rifle FAR more often than the longbow, and this makes it obvious it is a weapon
that is better than longbow, AND the rifle has far better traits than the longbow. You
get +50% to the bleed duration, you get 20% skill cool down and you get piercing,
all with a base range of 1200.

Imo the longbow should be useful for power builds as well as for condition builds, just
like the rifle.

Thieves cannot burst anyone down if they have at least some toughness, thieves were
already nerfed quite severely. If a thief cannot burst down a squishy character without
any vitality or toughness, then what are they supposed to do? To get a lot of damage,
a thief will be in berserker gear, with 10K hp and no toughness, he will die faster than
you will if you get the jump, or if you react fast enough to their jump.

Berserker thief is about reaction, if you react to their assault then you win, if you act all
surprised when they jump you and you let them beat on you for five seconds, then yes
they will burst you down.

I doubt though that many thieves still choose the berserker backstab builds, it is not
nearly as good now against anyone but new players. Thieves are better off going
pistol/dagger or sword/dagger, or dagger/pistol, while giving themselves toughness
and maybe some vitality.

Personally, with almost any profession I play, I go with knight gear or precision-knight
gear, and carrion or rabid when using a condition build, never rampager.

I do hope main hand and off hand axe gets some love.

Especially the second mainhand axe skill is lackluster, and is only useful for stacking
vulnerability along with offhand mace. I never, ever use axe 2..

I love my axe/warhorn + longbow sylvari warden, but I really wish they’d improve
axe 2. It does less damage than a single normal hit from the auto attack, and is far too
short to be much use as a whirl finisher.

I’d love for it to be a parry with counter attack, or a 1/4 second daze, just to interrupt
an enemy charge up. Or maybe a 1/2 second short knockdown uppercut.

I’d pick a sword instead, but the damage is way, way lower and no sword traits I can
reach with my build.

But to be honest I never tried sword, is there any way for sword to be useful as main
damage source with power/precision/critdamage?

It would be better if they changed the focus to a bracer, something is that wrapped
around the left lower arm, but that’d require too much changes I guess.

The only option I can see is to just put in a hide function for the focus. The only of
the focuses that aren’t huge weird constructs, have weird colors like pink or bright
blue.

I really do hope the devs consider a hide option.. I like my guardian with sword/focus,
but the focus part just is not very cool looking. I’d take a shield instead, but shield skills
just aren’t very good imo.

I would very much like the “Powerful Blades” trait to be made useful and on par with
other weapon traits.

Right now it gives 5% damage bonus to sword and spear, if you compare this with the
other second tier weapon traits across professions, it is just really, really bad.

My suggestion is:

Powerful Blades: Reduces the cooldown of sword skills by 20%, and increases the
damage of sword and spear skills by 5%.

This would make it a little more on par with the warrior “Forceful Greatsword” trait, as
well as with other similar second tier weapon traits across professions.

The focus has no animations for any profession, often your character is holding
this weird object in an awkward manner, it would be nice if we could have an option
to hide the focus, so it seems as if the character is just holding a sword or axe or
scepter.

I don’t know much about coding for a game like this, but it should be possible to
allow an offhand hide checkbox if the character is holding a focus.

Whenever my client loads in or out of a story, it crashes to desktop. I try three or
four times, and then it will load into the story mode. Just to crash again when loading
out of story mode.

Only had this problem since today.

Damage on critters is a lot higher than what the tool tip says the damage should be,
so I’m not sure why trying it on a critter would help? Or is it different when a pet hits
a critter?

I don’t think there is any monster at starting areas that reduces damage from 34 to 7,
so it can’t be anything but a tool tip bug.

I have played the ranger profession across several characters by the way, this is just the
first time I noticed it. Like I said I have been playing since launch day, I was the first person to find the crossfire “bug” for example when they slowed the rate of fire.

But yeah I guess it isn’t a very urgent bug, just weird tool tip behavior at low levels.

I did have ranger characters before, this is just the first time I noticed this. Please don’t
call people newbies if you know nothing about them. I played since the very launch day, in fact earlier than that since I bought the deluxe edition.

I tested on about eight different enemies, damage was always 7 or 8, while the tool tip
stated 34.

If you don’t believe me, make a lvl1 ranger and test it at the enemies right at the start.
Hit “K” to check the pet tool tip and compare it to the actual damage it does.

I also noticed how every time I level up, the damage shown by the tooltip, goes down,
even though my pet stats go up.

First it said 36, then 34, then 30, now 24.

Most likely it is some kind of tool tip bug at low levels I guess. I doubt the damage itself
is broken.

I had several high level characters dude, I just started a ranger.

My fern hound’s bite ability tool tip says he should be doing 36 damage with it, yet in
the field my fern hound is only doing 7 damage with the bite ability, against any type
of monster.

Anyone know why this is?

The tool tip on my fern hound’s “bite” ability (auto attack) says he should be doing
around 36 damage. Yet against even the weakest monsters, he is only doing 8 damage,
sometimes 7.

Needless to say a pet that does 7 damage per hit really isn’t very valuable.

edit: This character is lvl2, but I’ve leveled up other characters, I’m not a newbie.

I love the warhorn because it gives me more ways to help team mates, as well as
permanent swiftness.

Turning conditions into boons is just so nice, plus you get free from immob and
cripple and chilled in a guaranteed way. All of that aoe.

With shield it’s harder to be of use for others.

But I never think in solo, I always consider what I can do for others without losing
the ability to hold my own.

Warhorn + runes of soldier with two shouts, and maybe one banner, is nice support
and you don’t have to sacrifice too much solo efficiency. I also use a longbow, which
gives me more ways to support my friends by giving might and placing aoe pressure.

Sylvari with an axe, warhorn and longbow, gives you a very cool warden character. I
also got the Rox’s Quiver set, which makes me look very cool as well.

I really don’t like the idea of having three weapon sets.. I think it would be overpowered
as well as very clunky to use. I love the idea in the OP though to have more than one
burst ability. Four abilities would be too much, but one offensive and one defensive
ability as mentioned would be awesome.

I think having brawn give +2% chance to get an adrenaline strike is also perfect.

Why exactly is it that warriors are so bad at solo’ing?

I haven’t got the experience to comment with any weight, but so far I seem to have
enough mobility, damage resistance, condition removal and damage output to hold
my own.

Permanent swiftness, near permanent 5 might, near permanent fury, 10 conditions
to be removed if I exhaust all my condition removal cooldowns, which I can increase
to 14 if I wanted to, and with lyssa you get another total condition wipe if you want
to, on 42 seconds cooldown when traited, and the best thing is that much of that
removal is aeo.

Our ranged options are quite nice, even if you use the bow with a power/prec build,
I’m just not seeing why we are such a bad profession.

For roamers I would suggest that sword/board + hammer build with the P/T/Critdmg
gear. No precision but we get a trait to put crit chance to 50% against stunned victims.
The sword lets you jump around and reach places other people can’t, while hammer
comes down with 4K crits consistently due to +109% crit damage. With some 3200
armor and plenty of condition removal, along with endure pain, shield block, you’re
quite durable.

I think the most urgent change warriors need, is having our discipline trait bonus
fixed. I know the change from 30% to 3% burst damage was a panic reaction, but
it is really about time they complete the change and turn the bonus into a useful
bonus.

All professions gain something by investing into their profession specific trait line,
except warriors, who get nothing at all. This is something that needs to change, and
I hope they change it in the next major balance patch, because it is long overdue.

Guardians are your chose if you want to be a divine warrior priest.

I am very spiritual, so the profession suits me nice.

Bash.7291:

The guardian shoulders are way better than that and can actually be used with higher end armor since most of the later stuff is actual plate compared to chain/scale.

In my personal taste, the guardian shoulders you start with, are butt ugly, and I
really wouldn’t use them at any level.

But then again, taste is completely subjective.

No, the scale shoulders you can craft at 75 look completely different. It covers only
one shoulder and looks extremely ugly.

If you want to get those cool soul bound warrior shoulders as a guardian, just make a
warrior, buy a lvl11 fine chain shoulder from the market, and transmute it with the
warrior scale shoulders. Now the shoulders are account bound, and your guardian can
wear them and look cool as soon as lvl11.

I say this because the warrior scale shoulders look a lot cooler than the chain shoulders.

This is my young warrior, basic gear but pretty cool.

What trait do you take in the 10 points of the strength trait line?

I bought this quiver, and I love the design, however on all except charr and norn,
the quiver is just too big. I think many people agree that it would be nice to have
the quiver reduced in size by ~15% for human, sylvari and asura.

The efficiency of this skill is unsufficient, many times only one of the bolts will hit the
target, cutting damage by 66%. With our horrible health and armor we shouldn’t have
to face hug our target just to be able to hit it.

My suggestion is to give each of the bolts a small aoe blast. So that at range 300 they
are still able to fully hit a target, and this gives the elementalist some small but much
needed leveling improvement, since we’ll be able to hit two or three enemies at once
then at full force with Dragon’s Claw, just like every other profession can do this too.

I do think this change is sorely needed, especially for all those newcomers who just get
rid of their elementalist, because they keep dying when trying to fight more than one
opponent. The staff can strike multiple opponents, but it doesn’t do enough damage
at all for leveling or farming.

Please consider this?

Thank you.

Shinoobi.1259:

I’ve been playing with a different set up recently. I would not advise this in sPvP where you definately need some precision gear/ sigil of energy/ maybe Arcane Blast to keep vigor up, but I’ve geared completely for Power -> Condition Damage -> Vitality. A lot of D/D elementalist seem to rely on their Fire Grab burst combo, but it is really unreliable in WvW with it’s short range and insanely high cooldown. The amount of condition damage you can pump out with Dragon’s breath and the typical churning earth/ teleport trick is pretty high. I use sigil of battle for might stacking and a +%5 damage. With the might stacking, your conditions slowly get more and more powerful the longer the fight goes on, so I just geared for “I know these skills are going to hit, so why not make them do the most damage I can?” It’s working nicely so far, but you’ll not see any amazing Fire Grab burst unless you use arcane power for some kind of instant gib(but if you did that, you’d be better off wearing beserker gear).

A solution to give you some added damage from precision, would be to use Carrion
weapons and armor, and Rampager jewls. If you like burning damage, then you also like
signet of fire, which increases your critical chance to something like 39%. You don’t got
any added critical damage, but a normal critical hit is still +50% damage.

If you have a lot of power, then even normal critical hits come down quite hard.

I am not sure of carrion jewels exist anyway.

With the right set up you can have several skills that ad 9000 burning damage. If
your opponent doesn’t cleanse the fire, then he will die. It may not be worth much
in spvp where people have condition removal, but in wvw it should be nice, and in
world pve it should be nice for leveling and farming too. You just apply the massive
burns while you avoid the enemy.

And please for God’s sake, improve our underwater damage.

My suggestion is to allow elementalists to have two sets of weapons, just like any other
profession, but to only allow them to swap their sets while out of combat.

Nothing changes really, except that now we don’t have to go into our inventory to find
the weapon that ended up somewhere last time we swapped. I think it would be much
more elegant this way.

Dual sword + longbow looks very cool, but sadly it just isn’t very good. I tried it and
I just couldn’t do enough damage for it to be viable. We stack a ton of bleeds when
we are close and all skills are off cooldown, but it just gets cleansed away again, and
our bleed stacking is very slow when 4 and 5 are on cooldown, since our third auto
attack doesn’t cause bleed.

Condition builds are more for professions that can stack bleeds from a range, so they
can just kite around while they stack bleeds. In our case we get kited and we don’t get
to stack any bleeds at all, while we get killed.

Condition builds are something for necromancers, rangers and thieves.

AlBundy.7851:

Warrior longbow is much cooler than ranger longbow. Maybe not as powerful, but
for me it is more fun. Plus the fire field and aoe blind gives me yet another way to
support friends.

I really wouldn’t call the blind on the warrior longbow aoe 5 ppl need to be literally stacked on top of each other for it to hit others.

I wasn’t talking just about pvp though, in dungeons against powerful monsters it
is nice to let them miss through blind.

Warriors are boring if you can’t find a build that you enjoy.

I am having major fun with my warhorn/longbow build, and I stopped playing any
other professions since I discovered it. I focus on supporting my friends, and I’m very
good at it. But I can still pack a serious punch if I have to fight others on my own, as
mainhand axe with +45% crit damage, plus very high toughness, I can lay down a lot
of hurt while being quite tough to kill.

I also look kitten cool since recently with my Rox’s Quiver back item.

It’s fun to have permanent swiftness, vigour, fury and might, with a ton of area wide
condition removal, two of which are converted into buffs.

Minor rune of the pack is not giving its +10% swiftness duration bonus.

My warhorn charge gives me 10 seconds of swiftness, the rune of the pack should
increase this by 1 second, but that is not happening.

This has probably been said before, but really I think it can’t be said enough, since
nothing is being done about this urgent matter.

Warriors get 3% damage increase on their burst abilities if they place 30 points into
the respective trait line. It used to be 30%, which in some rare cases turned out to be
overpowered.

This is just not acceptable.. please change this bonus because it is not fair in any way.

If the development team can’t come up with an inventive solution anytime soon, and
I agree it is not that easy to find something to replace it, at least have this trait bonus
lower the cooldown of burst abilities by 1% per point, up to a maximum of 30%.

Together with the tier 3 major trait for burst cooldown reduction, you would then
have a 50% cooldown reduction for burst skills. This would not be overpowered in any
way, as none of the burst skills are particularly powerful, and adrenaline must be raised
first as well, it would at least make the trait bonus somewhat useful.

Right now the bonus is 100% useless, so please change it sometime soon?

But at some point it would have to be changed to something proper, maybe a different
effect depending on what burst abilities are used.

Lighter.5631:

Zsymon.8457:

This is my longbow toting Sylvari:

you should have be a ranger

Why?

I love having a pet, but I cannot nearly give as much support to friends as with my
warhorn/longbow warrior. I also never manage to kill anyone at all as a ranger with
a longbow.

Warrior longbow is much cooler than ranger longbow. Maybe not as powerful, but
for me it is more fun. Plus the fire field and aoe blind gives me yet another way to
support friends.

I also look kitten cool.

This is my longbow toting Sylvari:

Artaz.3819:

@Zsymon – Berserker’s and/or Knight’s (mixed) is the way to go with this build; Explorer’s for PvE farming

Maybe a berserker weapon and the rest knights.

I love this build as a Sylvari in brown/green forest armor with Rox’s Quiver set, looks
so nice.

-cry- and I thought I found a reasonably unknown build with axe/warhorn + longbow.

For me it is the best build, not because it allows me to stomp people, but because it
allows me to offer a lot of support both offensively and defensively to my group. I run
it with a soldier weapon and knight stats. 40% crit damage with the axe is enough
for me to not need berserker stats, and focus on toughness and precision instead.

I think this build has a lot of advantages over other builds. I found for most classes,
the builds that allow you to get +30% crit damage from your traits, are the best, as it
allows you to use knight stats. Getting knight stats +30% trait crit damage, seems
to work for all the professions (for me).

I don’t think soldier works because of the pitifully low precision, your crit damage is
worthless then, and the whole point of the high crit damage from traits is so you can
get a lot of toughness from knight stats.

But I do wish power/precision/vitality stats existed.. that would be even nicer.

I’m a bit amazed at how few builds use warhorn.. when traited it is one of the most
amazing weapons in the game.

The game isn’t all about killing and doing damage.. the amount of support a warrior
can give with a longbow/warhorn build is extremely nice. If you get your traits and
your stats right, you maintain single target burst damage and survivability. You also
get permanent swiftness/vigour/fury/might, greatly improved ressing capabilities,
and just a whole lot more fun than just focusing only on killing people.

I wouldn’t bother with healing shouts, it only heals 1.1K without clerics, and really I
don’t think cleric gear works for warrior regardless of what build they choose. Your
usefulness is just too limited then, being a healbot isn’t very warrior-like.

I think warrior, due to their well-balanced and intuitive traits, are best at hybrid builds.

I really hope we could get a reaction from a dev on this idea, or at least tell us why
it would (not) be a good idea from Anet’s point of view.

I really want to play together with my friends, but they just aren’t going to buy it if
they cannot try it out first. I would gift them a copy from my own pocket, but that
would be pointless if they start playing and don’t like the game, just to quit again &
waste my money.

In qwerty it is:

(full action bar)
M4 – M5 … Q – E – R … C … 1 – 2 – 3 – 4.

Best possible key binding for easy and intuitive playing, in my opinion.

Using the number keys for weapon skills, lowers your reaction speed and decreases
gameplay enjoyment. Utility skills have a long cool down, so the numbers are good
for those.

I can’t imagine not having a mouse with button 4 and button 5 on the inside.

Aridia.3042:

Jordo.5913:

kokiman.2364:

rox’ quiver, rox’ bow, braham’s mace, braham’s shield

anyway….back on topic…this seems likely for me…

Rox’s Bow is a shortbow yes?

No. He used Barrage when i played. So it’s a longbow.

No, I just checked, it is a short bow.

If it were a long bow I would buy it right away.

If you convert your Rox’s quiver for use in pvp, can you still wear it in the normal pve
world then?