Guild Wars 2

Benjamin.6235:

You think Maguuma is a winning server?

sorrows furnace too…our positioning either puts us on top of servers who belong in tier 7 or servers who fall out of tier 5. its really an un-fun roller coaster ride most weeks

:)
kensei look

i do a lot of solo roaming on sorrows furnace, usually we either control everything or absolutely nothing, so after the map dies down theres a lot of small action.

1) ranger <- always a guaranteed quick kill..sorry rangers
2) warrior <- low damage mitigation and an easy to block downed skill
3) engineer <- dont see too many tho..
4) thief <- they would be #1 on my target list but their downed skills mean im stuck in the fight for a while
5) guardian <- so hard to deal with in a group scenario but i love picking on em in 1v1
6) necro <- death shroud…
7) mesmer <- i actually actively avoid mesmers, but im slowly learning how to fight them
8) elementalist <- impossible to cc and they are literally impossible to kill in siege defense scenarios.

ah now theres a good idea. unfortunately wvw karma items are rare so the chances are considerably lower to get a precursor but i guess i could drop 100k karma whenever i get close to a million on rifles or something. ty all

(and btw i read that the cap was 1 million, but as i recall there was a patch note sometime ago that said they raised the cap so i dont know what it is now)

LithePanther.5027:

Assassinin.4963:

Purchase exotics gear and salvage them. Sell the salvage material on TP. In this way, you monetarize those karma points. Don’t waste those points.

I thought Karma items weren’t salvageable?

yea im pretty sure theyre unsalvageable.

Loswaith.3829:

Rare/Exoitic Crafting Recipies, perhaps.

You could make them and sell them for coin on the trading post though I suspect your fairly flush with coins anyway.

i bought all the recipes for jewel crafting and armor smithing already

i WAS flush with coin, but i spent 70 gold to make jormag’s breath recently so im down to about 20 now

Counciler.7438:

If you’re not interested in the current offerings for weapon and armor skins,
hold on to it. Chances are good that with new content, there will be new items you can purchase for karma. If you spend it all now, you may regret it later when new stuff comes out!

this is what ive been thinking too, maybe there’ll be some ascended karma vendor or something later but im worried ill end up hitting a cap before thats implemented.

(since i posted op, im up to about 990k karma now..WvW is good karma farm lol)

i have 956,000 karma, im fully geared and im not interested in a legendary. what should i spend my karma on?

(this is a genuine query, but its also a bit of commentary about the fact that theres very few things to spend karma on that im aware of)

Windmoor.9834:

SF: I have mixed feelings on what happened to you. Yes, I do believe you are having issue with folks PvE’ing, but there has got to be more to it. That made me go back over the strats I watched you preform in the last 2 weeks. I’ve seen you cap many locals using DB to your advantage. Whether that be, back dooring, or cross mapping after thier assualt is commited. I don’t think NSP is to blame for your drop in rank, sorry.

since when did we drop ranks? weve been in this tier pretty much since launch (and according to the matchup webiste, were going to stay in this tier).

i wont comment on the whole pve thing, but i will point one thing out: we played sanctum of rall 3 weeks in a row before, and we beat them the first time, and then lost the other 2 times by very wide margins.

theres any number of reasons why our serv is doing poorly this week, and i dont believe pve is the sole reason

yea i experimented with fast casting and i changed it back to normal. the problem for me is that occasionally my cursor gets lost in the scuffle and the bright green circle helps me reorient myself

despite obviously feeling saddened by the loss of clearly our largest wvw guild, i do want to say thanks to you guys for all the efforts you made through thick and thin and i wish you well on whatever server you go to.

absolutely. we have good ranged abilities, we can get into melee if we need to, and our heavy armor generally allows us to be able to do things like combat res or tank aoe while manning siege.

warriors advantage in wvw is our flexibility to do pretty much whatever needs to be done

my advice: learn about the intricacies of the other classes. if you know what theyre going to do, you have the tools to be able to counter it

good guide for getting people started on the warrior (im actually gonna experiment with fast ground targeting now lol) but i would be quick to remind everyone reading that glass cannon builds arent the only thing a warrior can do..

might i suggest prec/tough/cond gear you can acquire from orr or from dungeons?

using a mh sword and longbow, i would def recommend cond over crit dmg

yes, conditions ignore armor. a high health pool and cond removal is the only mitigation. having constant 21 stacks is perfectly fine. bleeds are only ‘wasted’ when the cap is stuck at 25, that means that someones bleeds are being overwritten by a player with higher condition dmg

(and ps, playing as a cond spec warrior, i dont find the bleed cap to be too big of an issue because war has a high enough base dmg to be able to make up for the loss of dps due to the cap)

yea so that part was working as intended.

the thing that bugs me is that when your hp regens above 90%, it still doesnt seem to add the 100 armor back until you weapon swap (unless the hero window tooltip is wrong, but ive never checked)

@defektive yes thats correct, but keep in mind icd of the sigil. fire has a cd of 5 secs so itll only proc once or twice if youre lucky

ive noticed this as well, and i only have 15 points in defense (meaning i can reproduce your problem without actually using shield master). im almost positive its because of the 5 pt minor trait.

if you take significant fall damage your armor goes down by 100 too, until you weapon swap.

EDIT: after watching your vid, i calculated that 90% of your 27,102 health is 24,391, and the moment your health hit that level, your armor dropped by 100

nice work haha

thief, mesmer, ranger trait, engineer (i honestly dont know how, but ive seen at least 3…probably trait), and last tier of rune of infiltration for anyone

warrior’s ranged abilities are very good, and by design the class is not as effective as a guardian at tanking (although if you choose defensive traits, it would certainly help).

i had a very similar dilemma when choosing between guardian or warrior. i went with the warrior because it has good ranged abilities but is ultimately melee focused (80% of the time ill be using a rifle, but that doesnt mean that my sword/shield isnt the true centerpiece of my build).

i really like having the choice of kiting or melee’ing, there’s a great variety of roles/builds to choose from in the class

standard keyboard, logitech mx518 here.

1-5 – weapon skills
f1-3 – slot skills
f4 – elite
zxcv – burst/profession special

middle mouse – heal
m4 – auto attack
m5 – weapon swap

e – target nearest enemy
q – look behind
tab – stow weapon

i use sword+shield/rifle, but i always carry a longbow for siege.

warrior is a very good roamer, as long as you know your class and the abilities of others, you should be able to beat most other classes in 1v1 (exceptions are thief and mesmer, but doesnt everyone have problems in 1v1 against them?)

longbows untraited 900 range makes it difficult to use in the field, compared to the rifle’s 1200.

heart seeker spammers are np. its the ones that 4 shot you that are a massive pain (3k armor too..)

stealth thieves are annoying but not overly dangerous. as long as you know not to stand in one place to get backstabbed

@desertrose he said hes using a rifle.

i have this issue too, i out aggro my guild’s guardian all the time. whats your armor rating, btw? supposedly your total armor factors into aggro calculation as well

@gorefiend thats not the first time ive heard/seen our server do that..

looks like http://mos.millenium.org/matchups#NA is back up. yay

better yet, why not be a yak?

(to stay on topic: no.)

this is what i envision:

cost to claim:
stonemist – 2000 influence
keep – 1000 influence
tower – 750 influence
camp – 250 influence

or something like that. you could work the numbers in your head all day, but unless its actually considered by anet, its just academic.

shield stance > endure pain all day.

sword+shield/rifle, but bow for siege situations in wvw. bleedssssss (and burn too of course.)

and now that i think about it, you can always just kite the vengeance’d warrior for 15 seconds…

precision/toughness/condition exists, you can get it from orr karma vendors or from dungeons.

greatsword doesnt fit with a condition set because you’d be sacrificing a lot of base power. i use sword/shield and a rifle personally, but i always carry a longbow in my bag, just in case theres a need for aoe.

1) endure pain doesnt block condition damage.

2) you need to fail at finishing the warrior 2 times for vengeance to activate, and he can only interrupt the first one.

stop trying to auto attack a downed warrior, it doesnt end well for you.

how about make claiming cost a certain amount of guild influence to dissuade people who just want their emblem to be seen?

you cant make it so expensive that small guilds cant claim tho. i too am a member of a small guild, but we have art of war lvl 4 and want to claim to give buffs

i would like to see individual server forums, but i think the threads for each matchup is good enough right now

have fun next week getting stomped by a server that can actually put up an off peak presence.

if you know how to play your class and you understand the mechanics of all (or at least most) other classes, it is still entirely possible to defeat someone in 1v1 who has all 3 orbs. it is certainly harder to do, but it is absolutely not impossible.

noooo flurry is how i get most of my kills with sword/shield. dont take that away from me

ill salute them if they put up a good 1v1 fight, ill laugh if they try to insta-gib me (ie drop all their skills in 3 seconds) but i still kill them. i wont go out of my way to humiliate them.

…that being said, one time i built a ballista on top of a guy who tried to chase me back to spawn.

Niim.9260:

Just wanted to /salute the Yak engineer I fought last night between garrison and EH, on the SF BL map, had one of those wonky graphic guns that are 10 miles long. Was a good fight. Downed me first, then I downed him. Was going to be a tight finish, I think I was getting up first, just not sure I would have finished you off in time and you had all your kit still up. To bad those three other yak folks interrupted.

Either was was a good fight, one of the few I have had this week, so /salute.

ive run into that guy so many times while solo roaming. his weapon isnt something you forget lol

786 deaths, 6932 wvw kills (only have 1 character)

probably less than 100 deaths are pve/falling off cliffs

the patch screwed us. so badly. we had 50-60 defending eth before the patch.

i load in, and we can only muster 3 while yaks has 30.

i notice you have no condition removal, thats huge in wvw. also, you have no gap closers other than the ones specifically on the gs (which are quite easy to dodge imo) and no immobilize so if you did want to hb it would probably miss.

this build is ok in groups, but i dont think youd hold very well in 1v1 if you get separated from the zerg

you should be aware lohengrin that the internal cooldown of the sigil of rage will affect the proc of the sigil of energy (ie once rage procs, you will not get a recharge of endurance on weapon switch for 45 seconds)

yea i noticed this too. since i use sword/shield, oddly what i have to do now is bulls charge > shield bash > flurry to hit em even tho their character model appears behind me (ill be slashing at air for a second or 2, but i am doing dmg because shield bash orients my character properly)

and if thats not enough, you can always upgrade em via mystic forge

hahah this is amazing.

sweet. thanks for the info!

does anyone know if the mystic rifle is fixed? i had heard quite some time ago that the ingredients were popping out a lvl 62 rifle instead and i would rather not risk my coins until i know for sure.

i agree with this.

here you go. good luck to all involved :)

(ps taking this screenshot got me killed by risen. >.>)