Fury duration is per hit: (2 × 2 x mobs hit) seconds
He’s using hammer / sword+axe and yes, he’s using whirling axe while EP is active.
No, I didn’t mean quickness. I was referring to other boons and conditions that are neither warrior nor axe related.
As for quickness: axes are popular enough. If you add quickness to axes then other weapon sets will be no match for an axe/axe combo in terms of raw damage.
Can’t think of anything else atm than wouldn’t make it OP.
Replace it with a blocking skill so it will be on par with other one handed weapons.
Isn’t axe AA fast enough, you want even quickness for axes?
Stay away from my healing signet!
I’m happy with most of the skill changes, especially Berserker Stance which finally makes it possible to rush though a crowd in wvw. I have mixed feelings about the traits. Some traits finally got the boost to make it out of the “not gonna use ever” zone. Brawn is finally useful… for Eviscerate and Earthshaker spammers at least. My primary concern however is still the build diversity. It went utterly wrong and made the amount of viable builds even more limited.
Just tested it. Healed me for 397 with 3 bars with 197 HP (normally 210 HP but I’m in Malchor’s Leap and down scaled to lvl 79) so it’s about 400 every 3 seconds which is a 40 point improvement for me.
Edit: 402 to be precise
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Maybe they intentionally leaked the patch notes to see our reaction.
I didn’t say anything about burst mastery. Extra adrenaline on axe crits and/or whirling axe will keep your adrenaline full, so you can spam F1 while still enjoying the benefits of HF and BP.
@Kurajin
It can easily be tied to adrenaline which is the class mechanic.
30/10/0/0/30 axe/axe will dominate everything. Flat 20% damage, 10% extra crit damage, 15% crit chance, spamming Eviscerate while having your adrenaline bar instantly full again. Whirling Axe will even do decent damage, not just fill your bar, not to mention the 20% axe cooldown reduction which has quite low cooldowns anyways.
@PistolWraith and Stelli
Currently all you need is 10 strength and 10 discipline. Everything else is totally up to you. You have 50 more points to spend. If you can’t think of at least 6 builds then I pity you. Furthermore 15% dmg and 15% crit chance is far more than some situational +20% dmg or flat 150 power.
Now lets see the upcoming patch: 30/30, you are left with 10 points. Good luck.
MisterEction has another good point: traits in the strength tree are not very useful.
For those who want to keep HF and BP:
30 strength and 30 discipline. You are left with 10 points. Both strength and discipline have nice axe traits. Those 10 leftover points won’t get you anything weapon related from other trees. Most are master traits.
What if you don’t want HF and BP? You’ll lose 15% overall damage and 15% overall critical chance. No problem for CC builds. Massive loss for DPS builds however.
So… you either go with dual axes and still do a nice amount of damage, or make a CC build.
Going from 6-8 viable builds to 2. That’s what I call build diversity.
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only GS warriors are complaining, as they don’t want other weapon sets got stronger than their ugly sunrise or twilight
hopefully warriors are more competitive in pvp after that patch…right now they’re pretty much victims for almost every class.
All weapon sets are getting weaker except axes which were good and popular enough.
Regenerate x% of your max HP every second would be so much better.
Ah… I’ve seen that in another thread where some guy said his necro wouldn’t go even below 75% HP against that warrior.
My ele can take on more mobs than my warrior.
My elementalist is using power/toughness/healing gear. My mesmer isn’t fully geared, but she’d get toughness/precision/condition dmg. If I’d roll a thief I’d go with vit and con dmg. If I had a guardian it’d have PVT. Should I go on?
Read my post again!
Instead of GS, people will run dual axes with something like 30/10/0/0/30 because you can’t take the GS trait anymore if you want HF and BP. However both strength and discipline trait lines have some nice axe traits.
Your other option is CC which is rather for wvw.
Tell me, how is this an improvement?
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The goal was to provide more build options. In case of warriors they’ve limited them to pretty much 2 builds which is even less than previously. Next patch might as well delete all professions but thieves, guardians and mesmers.
Idk why people have to constantly bring up CoF. It’s a piece of cake for any profession specced for offense. Other professions with zerker gear are somewhat rare and this is why warriors are so favored. Try a group of warriors with PVT gear and you’ll see how “fast” they are.
What’s the “old” one, ‘coz I haven’t seen anything else.
Desolation has fought VS in T1
Drop to T2: introduction of the cough “random” cough match ups. Deso is fighting VS AGAIN
Drop to T3: guess what: VS AGAIN!
Smells like conspiracy to me.
For, and afaik they are already working on it.
I have a guildie who’s playing an engi and his build is quite OP, so I don’t know what “undesirable” means in case of engies.
I sure hope so
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Then why take those traits in the first place. If you want to spam F1, ignore those traits. You can take something more “active” instead.
I didn’t post anything in the guardian section. Just pointing out that a warrior requires 3 traits (2 soon to be grandmaster traits if the leaked patch notes are correct) and adrenaline while a guardian requires absolutely nothing.
Btw… I was hoping to see Brawn rebalanced or completely replaced with something else.
Mesmers have increased movement speed if they don’t shatter. 1 trait
Guardians can burn, get Aegis and regenerate health if they don’t use their class mechanic. no traits required
Elementalists have minors for each attunement. 4 traits, but all minor
Rangers can have increased pet stats for not swapping and keeping the pet alive. 1 trait
Thieves can get +1% damage per initiative. 1 trait
Not sure about the rest
So, why is this even in the warrior section? Furthermore traits aren’t skills. You don’t press any button to activate them. They are conditional. Having adrenaline is also a condition. You lose it if you go down, you lose it if you press F1, you lose it for not being in combat. If you really want to complain about passives do it here: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian
Almost all passives have requirements. They require adrenaline, a specific weapon to be equipped and stuff like that. The only 2 real passives are the 2 converters: toughness to power and power to vitality which are kinda weak anyways.
@XII
If I’m not mistaken the movement speed changes are irrelevant since nothing ever stacks with swiftness (except that extra +7% from runes).
Another positive feedback from me as well
I simply walked. Had to use 1 WP because I died from falling damage while I was autorunning and looking for the next one on the map. I lit all 30. The rest will probably be done by occasionally going from LA to Gendarran Fields and lighting up the 2 southern ones.
+1 to that. I won’t even use it if it doesn’t come in either red or black. Blue simply doesn’t suit my char.
They are well aware of that. What you are doing is protesting and not reporting a bug.
It’s been disabled because of the Dragon Ball exploits.
I hope this includes on kill effects as well
Everyone needs to pull their panties out of a bunch. Not everyone is glued to the forums and most people going into these games are completely unaware their food buffs are not dropping off on entry. So calling for bans and reporting people for exploiting at this point is absurd.
Your argument would be valid if I saw at least 1 guy with something other than regen food! It usually goes like this: “hey, I found an exploit…” and people instantly start exploiting. No need to read forums. They are well aware that it’s a bug and still make use of it, therefore they are exploiters.
I made a bet, it was about to start, 3… 2… 1… network error! Hooray
There is a lot of guesting going on, I can assure you of that. Just look at the map chat before world events.
No, it only punishes silly builds like this. I’m totally fine w/o nourishments and/or utility consumables.
I like your idea of Embrace the Pain. It’d actually be useful.
@Mesket
My damage doesn’t really suffer from mobility. when I do WWA I do damage and evade attacks, then I dodge in, not away. Reckless Dodge allows me to do damage even when I’m on the defensive, so I’m pretty much on target most of the time.
Facetanking can be a nice way of support just like I consider switching to a bow as a form of support for combos. The small area blinding and the immobilization also come in handy. I also have a support staff elementalist. Whenever I use Healing Rain I switch to earth and do Eruption since that build of mine has no other blast finisher. This is probably the reason I like blast finishers that much since the AOE effects can mean great deal to the party.
I have to correct you on the weakness part: 50% of Non Critical hits are glancing blows (50% damage) meaning a crit build will only suffer from the -50% endurance regeneration part while a non-crit build will get both penalties.
@Mesket:
That’s 1 blast finisher I didn’t factor in since you didn’t mention the hammer, the other finishers aren’t of much use. I don’t know how effective your build is in terms of damage. Looking at the stats alone makes me think you do less than half of what I do in terms of damage and I’m not even running the standard zerker build which can do a bit more. I’m not facetanking mobs all the time. I stay mobile and that’s pretty much the key to my success. I’m curious… how does your build compare to something like Strife’s AH guardian build?
@Red Falcon
I’m sorry to hear that you are not successful in staying alive with a glass cannon greatsword build but that doesn’t mean others can’t.
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Only an elementalist specced for such can keep burning up all the time. In every other case it’s not wasted. Burning has a low duration.
I do take advantage of all fields, including mine. You won’t always have a staff ele spamming lava font in every party nor any of those barely existing torch rangers and such. What makes a LB good is Arcing Arrow which not only does a large amount of AOE damage but it’s a blast finisher. So, I have 1 blast finsiher, you have none unless you use banners, and it’s pretty much the best finisher there is. Since you mentioned a mesmer: they have exactly 1 blast finisher: on a torch that nobody ever uses.
On a side note: why do play a role an offensive guardian can do far better? Your build sounds just as “good” as a “healer” thief spamming area stealth for regeneration.
Pretty much this ^
Unfortunately off-hand sword is quite ineffective. It has 2 single target skills which are neither useful nor spammable.