FSP is often just below the que limit so you have enough people but no waiting times and i’ve recently noticed some gaps in our commander coverage in the afternoon. You’re from GH, you’ll have probably noticed how in EB we suddendly start losing stuff during the afternoon: that’s generally where we are sitting around in ts asking who feels like tagging up next.
Hop the fence, we got skilled militia and pugs, decent numbers, ok coverage, no drama and booze.
problem with rifle in zergs is that it’s very selfish and doesn’t play (imho) to the full strenght of what a warrior can do in a melee train rather than being on the edge of the fight (a position MUCH better filled by necro and elementalists).
that said, don’t believe those that say it’s bad because it is truly effective while roaming. In your general GS/rifle setup the rifle makes for an amazing switch, it’s a great weapon to chase or finish off targets that try to kite or range you and it’s a lot easier to land your “shots” compared to bow (which has slower porjectiles and shorter range, also rifle has an easy-to-land cripple to prevent people from running while bow skill 5 is so easily dodged it’s a joke)
also never underestimate the power of CHANNELED skills (rifle 3 and f1), in a stealth heavy environment such as wvw roaming warrior’s rifle is the best way to finish off mesmers or thieves, just open with GS burst, as they reach 50% (which could be as easy as bull rush + 100b even if they manage to avoid half) they will try to disengage: swap weapon and fire rifle 3, bang, dead thief. That alone would make rifle a good roaming weapon as it’s basically anti-meta.
a free endure pain every 60 seconds? do you realize just how much of a “get out of jail for free” card that is? that trait combined with war dingage skills allows you to play SO carelessly it’s funny, you can be a leeroy and nearly always come out unpunished.
They really are good at what they do which is surprising at times given some intoxication driven initiatives.
nerf dps ok, then what? any half-good zerg would be UNDYING, it’s already tough enough to kill somene in a zerg if they are any decent because of being able to hide behind “fresh” allies and heal on waters.
My guild has a set time for raids, usually when we are starting one of the questions is: do we tag up or not?
the answer might be yes, because we are too few comapred to enemies on the map, yes becuase that’s what the server needs atm or possibly no, because we just feel like dirty jokes on guild ts. (just to make some examples)
that guild group whitout a tag knows that people might leave the border if nobody tags up, but it’s entirely up to them deciding wheter they feel like open or closed raid, unless you’re on a very low tier server there is likely a tag on at least a border, go find that commander instaed.
he wrote rangeD, not rangeR as in, ranged combat.
That said…. what? You seriously think Guardians and Warriors are underrepresented? Guard is still THE gamechanger in conquest mode being able to hold a point forever until help comes and war has possibly the largest number of viable builds in pvp out of all classes even besides the infamous hambow or condi war.
..and even if it was true, your points still make little sense, elementalists are not ranged (dagger dagger is a melee spec and is the most puplar build) and you completely disregarded thieves which are very popular and also melee focused.
If kiting is your issue maybe you should switch around your utilities or weapon choiches a bit.
then again, as much as you are free to go in a dungeon playing as casually as you feel like others are equally entitled to do speed/skip/weirdrestriction runs if they feel like. join a different party or make your own.
that said, i’ve only started playing 1 year ago, never cared for achievements and yet i’m near 7k by just… doing stuff? not even having 5k ap from launch is beyond me.
Has anyone ever tried the burning damage increase trait with a WvW mortar fire field and condi gear? Just curious to know if it works and how it is like, sounds silly enough to have to try it out at least once.
if you were a norn, i’d have to conclude BEAR is trying to tell you something.
hammer aside, why would you even carry cleansing ire and dogged march to pve? i can’t remember the last time on my warrior i NEEDED any condi removal in a dungeon, excluding, maybe, some fractals.
If you have a half decent guardian in your party that he’ll slot in cleansing flames (was that the condi removal consecration?) for those few encounters where it’s ever needed and that’s it. If you REALLY think you can’t trust your guardian on it just slot zerker stance for that one fight (like on that dredge boss that stacks a gazillion bleeds in a second when he feels like it).
It comes down to knowledge of the content really, but i can’t think of a single instance in the whole pve game where dogged march would be a good pick over… pretty much any other trait. If you really like your hammer and defense traitline slot cull the weak maybe.
I’m from FSP and we have pretty much the same as i’m sure many other servers do. Don’t think t1 servers are special snowflakes, they are just bigger.
and instaed of GWEN they have MR.T meta in zergs
that’s actually unnecessary, fiddling around with your character panel resets your afk timer on your own whitout the need for someone to go ress you
considering how rewards are fundamentally the same for easy dungeons and difficult ones (you could argue rewards for high level fractals are worse than farming easy paths in the same time excluding the occasional weapon skin which will probably not be for your class) i’d say they are being consistent.
Whoever did it -clearly- arranged it specifically to make it hard to get it reversed. I find it pretty disturbing that you could completely outsmart the customer support if you wanted to mess someone up with something as simple as a backdoor or fake ip.
There’s people behind monitors you know? We’re not even talking about money refunds or anything that could be scammed, just someone that found himself in a very kittenty situation that cannot be proved easily asking for his one-time rollback the support page says can be granted to each account.
They could make a little stretch if they cared.
I don’t think you understood what was posted Smooth Penguin. A backdoor was performed on the user’s computer so as far as game logs go it looks like there was no unathorized access.
Examining the computer instaed can easily prove this, but obviously support can’t do that itself.
If this isn’t a compromised account by a third party i don’t know what is.
i’m sorry but you seem to have a reading issue.
roaming is not “pve”, and oftentimes you’ll be solo on top of that.
been running 0/25/30/0/15 myself when using GS/bow before patch, it works just the way it used to except it’s slightly less effective than it used to be. 1v2 however i really felt the drop in power from arcing arrow and the less dodges.
PUGs might not notice but any half-competent player will KNOW the damage isn’t right (you just know when someone is running a build like that after the very first enemies if you run dungeons every day for a while)
a build/equip setup like that is leeching, pure and simple. just go full zerker or at least knight with dps traits. you only need to learn when to dodge and (depending on the dungeon) have around a competent guard for stability and reflection to survive every pve encounter.
the whole thing was disappointing to me simply because lord faren was not involved. we all know braham’s got nothing on lord faren.
it’s more related to how people go about dungeons at the moment. there’s a way to force almost all bosses into melee range “stacking” which provides easier team buffing and easier piling up of damage on the boss. even makes them screw up and not use some of their abilities (notorious example being spider queen in ascalonian catacombs which will not use her deadly aoe if everyone is hugging her).
in such a situation a “standard” GS/axe setup will deal twice or more the dps of any rifle build.
i’m sure it can work, it’s just not very good. if you mean pve-while exploring maps and gettng levels then is as good a choiche as any other. i could actually see it being fun to play in wvw provided you watch your position during fights, you’d be really squishy but killshotting someone in the middle of a zerg is always good fun.
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well, it comes down to playstile. for example i prefer staying on rifle on dredge fractal boss because it’s easier to keep moving it from a spot to the next while instaed i equip no ranged weapons on flame and frost bosses. appearently other posters just do it differently.
try both, see what suits you, there’s good arguments pro and con both weapons i guess. just never use any ranged if melee is an option.
my example was just a disguised way to say “yes, axe5 is useless”. same as if i said “X isn’t useless, you could use it as an earplug assuming you’re at -30 degree”. so it doesn’t count period, not because someone says so :P
yours instaed is something 90%+ of warrior population won’t ever do, so it’s more akin to “X matters when you’re at the olympics” told to a group of schoolkids learning a sport. it matters, but it’s not really a deciding factor to most players.
nice, the bow has a fire field. too bad it costs you all your adrenaline which at the very least should give you 15% extra damage. i’m sure all those might stack you are going to get from it will make up for the loss. few classes carry blasts at the ready, it’s mostly elementalists or engineers really… and they have no need for your fire field (and when do you ever see engi in dungeons?)
also, sure, fire field is neat… and so is 8 vulnerability stack from rifle i hear. besides, pin down only really hurts lots if you have lots of condition damage and you are not going to in zerker gear.
30/25/0/0/15 could benefit from it somewhat due to some condition from traitlines and +50% bleed duration trait that could be swapped in but you could also use the same trait to slot in -20%cdr for rifle skills. If you run 30/x/x/x/30 bow has just no redeeming qualities.
finally, when do you ever NEED a ranged weapon? not many places really, i can only think of dredge p3, some bosses in HotW that are nasty to melee, possibly ascalonian fractal boss and dredge fractal boss.
out of this 5 or so instances where a ranged weapon is nice to have 1 is an object and takes no bleed and the other needs to be kited continously (so fire field is useless and pin down possibly harmful) and that take a LOT of extra damage… but no extra condition damage as far as i recall.
PvE bow is just bad, seriously. (not that rifle is “good”, but it’s better)
as i mentioned, axe5 is worth using on the second boss in HotW path1 to remove his 30+ stack of block. see? one boss in the entire game>never being useful ever!
regardless, we all agree axe/mace > axe/x but don’t take dredge 49 or lupicus solo into it, i don’t think the OP will jump in there right away or anything. axe/x is just fine, could even go axe/shield and at the end of the day nobody would really notice the lack of dual-wielding trait.
on the topic of eviscerate: just don’t use it if it’s not going to score the kill.
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so you basically want a build that is very “relaxing” to explore with?
Get 30pts in defense. Adrenaline heal+Healing signet+added toughness will keep you healty so long as you keep your adrenaline up. Also pick the auto endure pain and auto balanced stance traits for maximum forgiveness (with stance duration increase trait too). This makes up your “lazyness” core, you can literally not look at the screen and the game will make sure you don’t die.
After that, pick 30 points in strenght. Since you want your adrenaline full anyway berserker power will help making short work of mobs, that and the +10% GS damage trait. As per the remaining trait either pick the 7% power to vitality trait or the falling damage decrease. It sucks anywhere else but it might just save you if you fall down trying to get to a vista.
Finally, i’d suggest the last 10pts into discipline to reduce your signet recharge.
Your main weapon should be a GS (excellent damage and mobility), as a switch you can either get a ranged weapon of sort or something/shield if you really feel you need even more “save my behind” buttons.
Finally, as utility i suggest endure pain/dolyak signet/signet of stamina/signet of rage. Signets are ok and relaxing, as they work whitout your input. Plus with dolyak and stamina signets you get an extra stability on demand, reduced damage, all of the rolls and an emergency cleanse-all-conditions. Signet of rage is very self explanatory.
It doesn’t get any lazier than this, you are never going to die unless you run into 30 dredge, fall off a cliff or get trampled on by some champion while still having an ok-ish damage to not spend 2 hours killing a veteran.
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQNAR3ejkOFvtQCPMxBA0jvyaLzjfAqIVB7A-e
notice i included no armor in this link, i could tell you to use zerker but in exploaration anything goes.
i did say “Axe/Axe” if you like the -look- of it. you don’t lose much from not having the offhand mace and offhand maces look ugly. true story. That said i can fit an axe4 in a decent dps rotation but nobody ever said you should use axe5, axe5 sucks. I can only think of a good use for axe 5 on the second boss in HotW to eat through it’s 30+ aegis stack.
Sure, knockdown and block and yaddayadda but honestly when do you ever really -need- any of that?
Hambow is strictly a PvP build, PvE wise the “meta” is any build that kills thing at lightning speed.
Empirical data seem to favor a pure axe build (mace offhand) that relies on autoattacking 90% of the time for max-dps but the general consensus is that it’s overly boring to play.
The standard dungeon-busting build (which is about as powerful but less tedious to use) is GS+Axe/Mace (or Axe/Axe if you like the look of it). Trait allocation would be something like 30/25/0/0/15 for max dps, but you can run something like 30/x/x/x/30 and it will work just as fine.
Can’t say much about WvW, depends on what role you want to fill there (zerg frontline? zerg backline? roaming? something else i can’t think about?)
where are you playing?
if we’re talking PvE dungeons then there’s very few situations where you need a ranged weapon and in such cases the rifle is strictly better than the bow (only a handful of bosses and items need to be ranged down and rifle>bow for single target ranged dps, especially if you are on zerker gear, which you should pve-wise). the fire field doesn’t make up for the all-round crap dps the bow has and the fact that to use it you’re probably giving up berserker’s power 15% damage bonus to use it (possibly also 15% critical chanche).
if we’re talking PvP instaed the bow offers you a lot more, especially the way it interacts with cleansing ire. rifle here has it’s uses but it’s a lot more of a gimmick choiche.
Tl:Dr: PvE->Rifle, PvP->Bow
Unfortunately in dungeons you only care about efficiency, faster killtimes = less time for enemies to kill you instaed: ideally you want your enemies to be dead by the time the guardian runs out of kitten -savers.
Hambow has low dps in pve, so while you certainly can run with that you most likely would be better off with something else. Axe mainhand and GS are the most effective weapons for a warrior to carry in a dungeon, you’ll occasionally need a ranged weapon to deal with a few specific encounters but the rifle is the preferred powerbased pve weapon of the two.
i’m sure it is (or part of it is) the cadeus manor armor
“is scarlet really that bad?”
i’ll say, i used to think iron legion officers were short tempered and abusive
why are you even arguing in a months old thread?
warrior isn’t even the best in pve or pvp, it’s just very easy to play so it’s best in average-skilled hands.