Guild Wars 2

On paper it’s scaling,

but while playing I feel it’s not.

Not sure though :/

Ganzo.5079:

Ninjah.6298:

chtiyonki.6284:

If I would complaint against Thiefs it will because they are just fleeing anytime they lost (QQ stealth).

That’s their mechanic and complaining about it is the same as them QQ’ing about us healing.

with a little, tiny… HUGE difference!
a guardian cant handle an enemy that flee all the time, no control conditions and mid\log cd on control skills, you can stop for few seconds, but you cant kill em in that space of time(most of enemys have 20k+ life, and thief have a disangage skill on every weapon) but an enemy can still damage us when we are healing.
im not complaining because a thief can stealth and go away, but i complain the fact that i can do nothing to stop them… and you know, there are few methods to “counter” healing: Big damage hits and poisons ^^

edit:
about healing, a thief with a double sigil of blood and lifesteal food, can completely heal his life with some pistolwhip, or heavy skill spamming ^^

This.

But they are lucky I have not enough tools to catch a good Thief, else they will all die :p

TheZeus.8617:

I am a guardian and I do not condone it but I have been INCREASINGLY seeing guards using the svanir/stun break/ swap elite skill and i have to say it’s sad. Anet need to look into fixing this fast. I find it funny that even after using invul/book heal they still cannot take the point… anyways Anet please look into this issue as we all know it is a growing one amonst guards. I report those i see doing it but that is not enough. Should hotfix it b/c a lot of paid tourney people say and do anything to win. Exploits and all.. Sad day to.

Any class can “exploit” the rune of svanir, Guardian just have an extra 3sec with the elite (and 5sec coupled to the trait).

I personnaly don’t use this glitch because it’s losing too much just for feeling as superman. But it’s indeed fun to don’t die so easy against a zerg

Also keep in mind after the 8sec of invincibility, the guardian have cooldown set on the elite + a stun break skill and probably all the virtues. We fall in weak position after this.

I have personnaly no issues against Thiefs with my build. 1vs1 I don’t remember any Thief able to kill me.

If I would complaint against Thiefs it will because they are just fleeing anytime they lost (QQ stealth).

And fighting the invisible is boring.

Pfffff,

I’m bored, asking question to ANet while debating of it with players… John it’s nice to have awnser from you about that but you are out of the topic and just not awnsering the question :/

Yeah we all know GS are bads, it’s not legit, ect…

Why players are suffering of a bad rate because of somes buying to GS, will you do something against this ?

It is, sometime I have already swiftness on me (20sec for the exemple) and when I walk on the symbol, instead of gain 10 more sec, I’m just downing to 10sec.

Just report the bug in-game.

I’ll probably !

I already made some videos of solo build with Greatsword but I’m playing a lot the Hammer atm and still frapsing

But atm I don’t know any solo hammer guardian vids on WvWvW.

John Smith.4610:

Tallis.5607:

There is no way for you or for me to change the price of gems, they are exclusively decided by Anet.

False. Anyone watching the exchange rate relative to the the many factors that induce supply or demand will see an extremely simple pattern that shows that the price of Gems and Gold is in fact controlled by player demand and is pretty volatile as one might expect from a system.

I’d also encourage everyone to read my previous post about the damage of goldsellers.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/Gold-sellers-vs-BLTC/first#post581941

Hi,

thank for your awnser, even if it’s not awnsering my question.

If I understand, I was true telling the rate depend of the players demand.

So, we are still in a vicious loop:

1 -> rate is aweful
2 -> because of this lots of players are tempted to buy to goldseller
3 -> thoses no legit players will invest in gems making the rate more aweful
4 -> so legit players suffer of this rate because of no-legit players
5 -> this making those legit player tempted to buy to goldseller
6 -> making the rate again more aweful
7 -> go back to 1

It’s unfair for us.

I really would an awsner: will you do something to protect legit players or continue to keep this way ?

I think you guys from ANet losing a lot of money from legit players, not because they buying golds to GS, but because they don’t want to buy gold to you because of this rate.

Hi Thiefs

Got nice 1vs1 fights against “perma stealth” spec thiefs, fighting peoples invisible 95% of the time is just…. awwww

It’s ending often by a tie, because you flee before I kill you :d

I hate you all ^^

“To the original poster: saying penalising ‘legitimate’ players for using goldseller services doesn’t make sense, because buying gold from a goldseller means that the player is no longer legitimate.”

Hi !

I think it’s a misunderstood, sorry for my english.

What I say is, if the market isn’t complety controlled by ANet, each time a guy using a GS to fill up his wallet it’s penalising legit players. It’s like buying shoes on the blackmarket IRL => you don’t give money to companies making shoes => compagnies need money so they increase prices when they can or they wont take a new employee because they lack of money for it, ect… (it’s just a kitten exemple :p)

An exemple to be clear:
– someone buy 500g to a goldseller.
– he will convert 250g in gems and spend 250g to play on the TP making even more money.
– as we saw during the event and also on the game release: more the gems demand is high, more the rate increase (same amount of gold for less gems).
– So ANet just lost a profit on a player because rates are kitten high and this guys prefered buy to GS and he increased the rate not in favor of legit player.

Gems seem to have like a virtual supplie. I’m not sure but it seem work this way.

Can someone from ANet clarify ?

fyi: today 1g = 125gems, yesturday it was 110gems. Last time I saw 1g for 150gems was 2 weeks before the halloween event.

Hey Tomkatt,

your build is close to mine so I guess he is good !
Even if I cannot play without 2hM !

Just a question because I never really tried to use “Pure of Heart”: what is the amount of health you receive ?

Thanks

My build isn’t made for sPvP at all.

The build this guy gave you is just one of the best you can have for a Guardian in sPvP.

I won’t sacrifice a dodge to win 0.3s speed on a skill.

But nice glitch.

“The problem with bunker guardians right now is that many people are exploiting a bug in our class that makes certain weapon type/trait guardians virtually unkillable. It’s pretty lame to see people using something obviously broken and I can’t wait until Anet patches it.”

It’s a kinda QQ I think. Or you’re not speaking about any exploit but just a chain of skills making you a superman for several seconds.

“ArenaNet can’t really reduce the price of gold. It’s controlled by them to some extent but not completely. The gem > gold conversion rate and vice versa is determined by player supply and demand. So as you stated, because people wanted gems during Halloween for various gem store things, more people exchanged gold for gems. Gems were in high demand, so it cost more gold to get X number of gems than outside the Halloween period because many people were buying gems.”

I’m fully agree with you and with some posts upper.

It’s like a vicious circle.

My conclusion after reading you all is more peoples buy to goldsellers, more the gem price increase. And more the gem price increase, more players are tempted to buy to GS.

The question isn’t if it’s better to buy golds to ANet or to GS, the question now is: will ANet continue to penalise legit players because somes buying to GS ?

I understand there is lots of maths behind the gems system to keep the market balanced.

But the fact is I wont give an euro to ANet because the rate is laughable, if they make fair rate a day I’ll give money. I feel like lots of players don’t spend money in the game for this reason.

If it’s 100 euros to go A → B by train and if it’s 80 euros by car, I’ll take my car. The train company will make a profit of 0 euro on me, if they reduce price of 20 euros I’ll take the train and they will gain 80 euros on me.

Hi,

thanks a lot for all your comment

“watch around 3:30 you see what i mean about guardians have no way of keeping players near them, that ele got away easy peasy even with him using all his gap closers.”

It’s indeed an issue on Guardian but good Elem are really hard to catch. That’s why I use sigil of hydromancers to get the snare we don’t have. Swiftness also helping (I’m addict to swiftness :p). I also have the GS jump and the Sword flash to help.
I don’t want use Signets to KD or root ennemies because in WvW they are not good in most situations (only in 1vs1 or 1vs2 to me).

“Multi opponent fights in this game are extremely hard because of downed state.”

Yeah, as you nitoced I just cannot finish off my ennemies, so after a minute or less they are rez and come back into the fight, that’s why I need to keep hell mobility and run as hell :p

“Nice, I would maybe swap singet of judgment for stand your ground or another stability for stomping.”

Yeah I switch often but as tell before, I’m addict to swiftness especially in WvW. I keep very very often Signet of Judgment because I feel a huge differance when I don’t have it.
It’s reducing all incoming damages by 10%, if I’m not wrong it’s reducing BEFORE mitigation (so it’s kitten good with high toughness) and reducing conditions dmgs.

“could you say what armor do you use? Cause I am full exotics, aiming for balanced stats and pretty much every stat is worse than you have oO”

Here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/10-0-30-30-0-A-Build-For-All-Ocasions-Updated-w-Video-Clip/first#post627953

Cempa.3645:

At the very end of the video he gives only :

10/0/30/30/0
3000 Attack
3300 Armor
46% Crit
45% Crit Dmg
14k – 16k HP

What traits did he use and which gear?
I see him stacking g Might so I assume he is using that Major Trait and not the healing from Symbol?

Also his Shouts have shorter CD so I know he has that Trait.

Mobility between Sword port and lower CD shouts you should have little issue!

Hi Cempa,

Thank for sharing my vid to everyone

This build is indeed “cookie-cutter” build, I love it because he is good 1vs1, 1vsX, small scale and large scale.

Most of the time my traits are: 10/0/30/30/0, or 0/10/30/30/0 (my favorite) or 0/0/30/30/10.
The gear I’m using is full Knight. My weapons are all PWR/PREC/TGH. My jewels are all Emeral Orichalcum with Exquisite Ruby on them. I buff myself with Flatess of Lemongrass + Superior Sharpening Stone (the buffs become really high with my toughness).
In this vid I stack might because of the GS and because of Empowering Might.
My runes are superior runes of the pack.
My sigil are all sigils of the hydromancers + sigil of energy on my 1h.

I switch often swiftness shout for the stability shout.
When I playing on small scale I always stack stability, on large scale I take Wall of reflection ofc.

This build is a good DPS build and a good Def build, depend of your weapons really.
And whatever your spec, your dodge will always >>>> than the rest :p Vigorous Precision but high crit% wtf.

I hope this post helping you a bit to find your way

“Your post basically says the price of gems and gold currently on the TP is forcing people to go 3rd party. Well that i what your implying in your post.”

I can’t tell ANet exchange rate pushing peoples to buy to goldseller if I don’t show an exemple. But the question isn’t here, the question is will ANet do something to prevent peoples to try to find better prices on internet ?

The rate is incredibly high, ANet politic against goldseller is not good because of this. They can ban hundreds of GS in-game but if they keep a rate so high peoples will not buy Gold/Gems to ANet but to GS.

Players aren’t tools, they don’t need me or my post to find goldsellers and we all know GS prices will always better than official prices. Tons of peoples don’t want to buy to GS because is not legit, but it’s also the same peoples don’t want to buy to ANet because the prices are too expensive. GS & ANet will never see my money for those reasons.

Nice to have differant PoV, thank for awnsering, I hope someone from ANet also will.

Thanks for your awnser.

“[…] and I would buy a lot more if the exchange rate were better.”

It’s exactly why I’m complaining, ATM I gave 0 euro to ANet because the rate isn’t good, with a better rate I would spend some money on the shop.

I understand ANet making profit with this system, and because they make profit they can make really nice event like the Halloween one.

But don’t you thing they could make more profit if they do a better rate ? How many players goes for goldseller instead of ANet shop because of the rate ?

Hi,

sorry for my english and the quality of my vids. I hope you’ll enjoy anyway.

Impossible Fights serie #1

Episode 1: Pwnage Golem
Episode 2: Free from audio editing

Made them only for fun and for guildies, I’m aware of doing tons of mistakes and not having a perfect gameplay but I want to share anyway.

Feel free to comment and rate the vids !

Thanks for watching.

We have already tons of stuff to catch kiters.

But I’m using sigil of hydraumancy on both weapons to cripple ennemies, I feel already kitten overpowered in WvW no need to give more cripple to guardians.

Hello,

sorry for my english first.

Today the gems price is really really high (1g = 107 gems).

On the store you can buy 100 gems for ~1 euro.
So atm ~1 euro = ~100 gems = ~1 gold

If I want to spend 50 euros in this game I get ~5k gems or ~50 golds.
FYI 5k gems is ~55 Black Lion Keys.

Now, I took a random goldseller website and there the prices:
50 euros = ~150 gold = ~15k gems
15k gems is ~165 Black Lion Keys.

Now some history…
1-2 weeks before the Halloween event 1g = ~150 gems
During the halloween event 1g = ~100-120 gems

I never bought to GS, and I never bought to ANet. I really would buy some golds to ANet but the prices are really too high and I don’t want to be scammed.

My question is, do you plan to reduce the gems prices to prevent players from buying
golds to goldseller or will you continue to increase the prices pushing players to go on goldsellers store ?

Thanks for awnser.

For WvW I stack high toughness and few vitality. I have better result with toughness than vitality. Just feeling.

Running 3.3k armor and 15k health + self health regen.

This build don’t die:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gIZjwVP0Fc

(starting @ 2m15)

Hi !

Sorry for my English

Here a file I made to find if it’s better to stack power, precision or crit damage on your char, based on 100 hits.

You can even try to do some Armor simulation to see how much damage you reduce with your armor.

Here the file: http://milesis.free.fr/ADSv1.xlsx

Don’t forget to read the “How to”.

[img]http://milesis.free.fr/ADS.png[/img]

I’m posting it here (was for Guildies ^^) because I would discuss about the formulas if I made mistakes of something wrong.

Thanks.

Retalation even not working correctly against “fast” attackers like Thief.

Retaliation Damage:

- Not stacking with any stat.
- Stacking only with your level.
- Damages can be reduce by armor.
- Not stacking in intensity but only on duration.
- On lv80 vs lv80 the average damage is between 150 and 350. Never less, never more.

This “nerf” isn’t even a nerf because who need Relatiation ? Maybe for PvE yes.

“Greatsword is a pure offensive weapon so perhaps adding Fury or Might or Vigor for 1second each second to the symbol would had worked better.”

That’s the point, peoples think GS is only offensive. That’s not really true.
Why they nerfed SoW ? It’s simple reason… SoW is a light combo field, so any whirl or projectile combo finisher will AoE remove condition.
You don’t really need to spec “condition remover” with a GS because you already have the stuff on the weapon, but it’s a little nerf now.

It’s always the same, they leaving ppls with no news and update… Just a poor “down for maintnance” since yesturday and till when ?
I was thinking ANet better in communication.