Guild Wars 2

Good afternoon! I’ve been playing my warrior more and more and I’m growing tired of casting For Great Justice every 25 seconds… one of the features of my Razer Naga is the ability to write macros… it’s not a special 3-rd party app… just a feature of my mouse… but I don’t want to get banned if ANet thinks it’s a bot… can someone please let me know if a simple “cast every x seconds” macro is illegal? Thank you and I hope we can get an official answer on this…

I honestly don’t understand you people… you complain that lvl 80 areas are too hard, so ANet gives you better gear so it’s easier for you to play in these difficult areas… but no… that’s still not good enough? Should they just GIVE us all legendaries cause we “don’t wanna grind”? C’mon here… and your exotics aren’t devalued anymore… they are soulbound to you anyways… so it’s not like you could actually sell it for anything more than 3 silver anyways even before the patch… and last I checked, they didn’t make exotics any WORSE… so you’re not actually worse off today than you were yesterday… I don’t understand the complaining… just be happy that they gave you more tools to beat the hard areas…

Also, for those of us who played Diablo 3… not doing this is exactly the reason why people quit that game… cause simple blue items were better than uniques… uniques were just lackluster… no one played cause there was no point of playing… you maxed out your level in a couple of hours and there were no interesting items to get… ANet is actually providing you with this content an you’re complaining? You guys serious here? I for one am actually pretty excited about the new items even though I don’t play nearly enough to ever even get them…

this is pure winning… bookmarked!

Brutalistik.6473:

I’m happy they buff Dual shot…I got tired of tickling mobs with dual shot while they look at me with the eat butt face.

dual shot was pretty good… better dmg than rifle… and 2 ticks of adrenaline… I would say that longbow was much better for PvE than rifle for us… and the rifle is already pretty OP…

BurrTheKing.8571:

Steely Phil.3952:

No significant Warrior changes at all. Patch after patch we get completely ignored.

We weren’t nefed, be happy.

yup… +1… we just gotta be happy we didn’t get a nerf-bat… we have to thank that we’re not like the poor rangers who are getting no love at all…

best upgrade for warrior in my opinion at this point is this skill called “no nerf”…

not too much of a difference honestly… I love playing PvE with my bow… super happy about the 10% buff to dual shot…

Here are the Warrior patch notes:

Warrior
Dual Shot: This skill’s damage has been increased by 10%.
Bull’s Charge: This skill’s range fact now properly reflects the actual range of the skill.
Reviver’s Might: This trait now uses the correct icon.
Stick and Move: This trait now uses the correct icon.
Forceful Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Brutal Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Split Shot: This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
Knot Shot: This skill is now a projectile combo finisher.
Repeating Shot: This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
Triple Chop: This skill’s responsiveness has been improved.

best news is no BS nerf… not fun that dancing dagger got nerfed but largely not too awful… I was expecting a major nerf-bat…

I’m at 46% and 355MB in… judging by this sample, could be around 720-750MB? give or take depending how good live stats are…

EDIT… I hit 50% at 409MB… could be more by these calculations… 820MB new estimate?

speed is back back “up” now… its jumping up and down between 500kb to 1.0MB for the most part with a few breakdowns in between…

not up as of now, I’ve been looking as well… guess I’ll keep playing my warrior for the time being hoping there will be a useful ranger update so I can go back to that…

my patch is downloading… it feels like it’s downloading over 56k… seriously…

I would love to know as well, it’s 1pm where I live right now, but since the developers/servers are actually in the Pacific time zone, it’s only 10am there… very early still… I would give them at least till around lunchtime… aka… another 3 hrs or so… then I would start worrying about a delay…

Talk.2935:

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fIAQJAUTjkO1w5OKPMRCEThi48AACQyTpoNsjUhzA;TwAg0CnoqxUjoGbNuak1sEZQwpgXBA

This one’s my current build in sPvP and WvW. Tends to put single targets down hard and fast. Being a squishy warrior is a trade-off though.

Arms 10 is a toss up between +40 prec per signet or 33% vuln on crit.

Sometimes I switch tactics 10 to leg specialist and use Rifle/Greatsword.

Edit: Currently using full knights but while I don’t recommend full zerk, it’ll probably work a lot better as long as you keep your team in front of you.

thanks for the reply… the link is broken though, any way you can edit? ty

Hey guys, been playing a warrior for a bit now, still leveling though but looking ahead to getting to max level and developing my strategy then… I was gonna go with a more balanced warrior but it just seems to make sense to go a bit more glass cannon… my original plan was to go 10/25/0/20/15 but now I’m thinking of just going all out 10/30/0/0/30… what are your thoughts? would it make more sense to possibly go a bit more into vit and get 10/30/0/10/20 (10 in vit for long bow range since I wanna be full ranged) or should I just go hard and go all glass cannon? also… if I do go glass cannon, what would you suggest… stick to the hardcore formula and go full zerk gear or mitigate some of the loss of defense with knights armor? (with Wurm runes in them possibly?) thoughts? ideas? suggestions? any tips on playing ranged warrior greatly appreciated! thanks!!!

PS… what skills you think would be best to carry too?

So for gear should I still go b@lls to the wall glass and get zerk stuff or try to mitigate non-existent defensive traits by getting some toughness/vitality gear?

thanks guys! you reassured me… I don’t think dumping 15 points into def is worth it just to get a minor life uptick… can be better put into something else… you think I should go with something reasonable like 10/25/0/20/15 or just go straight up glass cannon with with 10/30/0/0/30?

in terms of adrenaline, I tend not to dump it too much in PvE, but I do dump it often in PvP clearly and with some tougher bosses… I still like keeping it up though for berserker’s power… sick trait…

Still leveling my warrior, I’m ranged only so I don’t need to have much defense and vitality… I was wondering if adrenal health is any useful and if instead maybe I should go more into vit… my original plan was to go 10/25/15/10/10… but now I think putting 15 points into toughness just to get adrenal health might not be worth it and I could better put that into vitality for added survivability…

what are your thoughts guys? thanks!

Warrior long bow is just sick… that AoE attack is just devastating… the area is pretty huge and the skill deals A LOT of dmg… I play warrior ranged only and I’m gonna tell you this much… often times I find myself using the bow more often than the rifle… AND long bow for the warrior is like a 1000 times better than long bow for the ranger…

I feel like you’ve just pretty much told my story… I have no friends in the game so I always play solo (I’d like to play with others, but I’m still only level 37 since you know… I work a lot)… I have D/P and all I do is essentially just spam blinding powder every 4-5 seconds to keep them blinded, then auto-attack them to death… dagger auto-attack does good dmg and I never get hit in PvE cause the enemies just stand in the circle and can’t hit me… perfect strategy lol…

basically I troll black powder all day…

I really wanted to play a ranged class… so I tried the ranger first… it was soooooo boring… then I tried the engineers and just didn’t like dealing with all the gimmicks… it takes a lot of attention to play an engineer… you’d figure that if it requires sui much attention and skill it would be remotely good… nope… that class is worse than what backstab thieves well be even after the nerf… then u tried a rifle warrior… that was sui boring… the class is so OP you don’t even need to use skills.. you can just auto-attack and rifle butt enemies away if some tanky enemy actually gets to you… and oh yea… you don’t take any damage on top of that with heavy armor lol… so then I went to P/P thief… it was fun to play but pistols were just underwhelming… they killed SO SLOW… terrible… SB was not much better… so I ended up with the only viable thief build… backstab… a shame there are no good ranged options on this game…

sorrow.2364:

The main difference is:
You can see the warrior coming with Bull’s Charge.
You can’t see a thief coming before backstab comes.

Anyway Quickness is op, that’s true. But BS thieves are op the same.

Can you guys already make up your mind what you’re complaining about? Why is our backstab damage getting nerfed when the problem is as you said the stealth bug? Shouldn’t we just fix the stealth bug then and leave our backstab alone?

rofl… so true Marked.One… I hate gamers these days… I don’t think they would cut it back in the day of no save points for an hour, no health regeneration after combat is over and the games being ACTUALLY hard… these days people just whine till it’s no longer a game and rather a giant cinematic…

I see… so its typically on mondays but no set time… wonder when they will release this patch… its past 4pm EST already so I doubt we’ll get it today but wonder when it might actually be out…

I’ve been contemplating deleting my thief for awhile now anyways… I wanted to play thief as P/P or SB at least… basically I wanted a ranged character… but they are so terrible ranged that it’s not even funny… so I was pigeonholed to play backstab even though I didn’t really want to… now if they nerf backstab I will have no reason to even have a thief and should just focus on a ranger who will hopefully get a buff… That’s my rationale… anyways… so when will the patch happen most likely?

Yea it’s pretty sad how few people are playing… I get excited every time I even only just see another player in a PvE area… why it’s the game so dead?

In anticipation of a thief nerf-bat and ranger buff, im starting to wonder if I need to delete my thief and make a ranger instead… but I didnt wanna do it before it actually happened… so im wondering when this shameless patch will happen? So… when during the week does a weekly nerf of thieves happen? I wanna be prepared…

I completely agree with everyone in the thread… P/P is the reason why I chose to play a thief in the first place… but the weapon set is so terrible that I had no choice but to go to the only viable thief build…which is backstab… now if we get that nerfed, I don’t know what I would play on a thief… I really wanted to play my thief ranged but our ranged options are just simply terrible to be enjoyable… I would gladly accept a backstab nerf if pistols (or even short bow, which is pretty weak as well) will get a buff…

I love playing ranged characters but ranged options are so weak in this game for ALL classes that I have no option but to pay melee… it’s very discouraging… please buff P/P and/or short bow… I’m fine with a backstab nerf if we get a ranged buff, but if we don’t and just keep getting nerfed, it will certainly either make me quit thief in favor of a ranger and soon probably quit the game altogether… I wanna pay this game… please give us a viable ranged character…

see… this is your problem… you come in here and imply that only LGBT people are friendly and social… I’m very straight and I love socially chatting with random people for fun… but you’ve made the assumption that you’ll only get that experience from the LGBT community… I would assume that the LGBT community would be above making sweeping negative generalizations about others since… you know… but apparently you’re not… I’m actually offended at this and its pretty hard to offend me…

thanks guys! lots of good suggestions… I’m definitely just gonna go with greens till 80 and then invest into exotic!!! no use wasting that gold…

Hey guys… I’m a level 35 thief here… I started playing since first week but due to the lack of time and not being able to pick one character, I’m still on level 35… the good thing though is that I settled on a thief… I was really excited for lvl 35 cause I would finally be able to get rare items… but looking at the trading post, I’m not sure why I would ever spend so much coin on lvl 35 rares when level 40 rares are just around the corner… I checked out lvl 80 gear and honestly it’s not all that incredibly more expensive… so my question is… at which point should I move up from masterwork to rare gear? at which point does it make sense from an investment perspective? or honestly should I just suck it up and level all the way to 80 with whatever cheap I can get my hands on and then invest into good gear?

THANKS!!!

I mean at that point im not even gonna need initiative cause there will be nothing useful to spend it on.. autoattack will be our best skill… you nerfed heartseeker… what am I gonna do now? Spam blinding powder for fun?

This is seriously just stupid… spike dmg is the only reason why I even play a thief… I really really wanted to play a ranged thief… but guess what ANet… you guys messed up that balancing so badly that I had no choice but to play the only viable thief option… backstab… because everything else is awful… your terrible balancing forced me into playing a thief not in the way that I wanted to and now youre taking even that away from me? Whats the point of a thief at that point? Cause I really wanna play a glass cannon that cant deal any damage on top of that? I made a choice to play a character that has only offense… I have one hit to get the other person… and if I miss it, I die… now you want to take even the offense away from me? Now im gonna have 1 hit that wont deal any damage and after that hit im guaranteed to die… sounds like fun… if you do this, this will be the end of thieves…

I just gave up on P/P… its damage is like… non-existent…

I’ve really tried to make a P/P build work but it’s just not that good… main skill is unload and that barely does any damage… I really wanted to play thief ranged but shortbow is the only viable range option… its a bit annoying aiming every shot and the skills are just so slow that playing that for hours in PvE is exhausting… so I decided to give up on a P/P build and got myself a dagger…

now the dilema… how do I use that dagger? should I use it as a mainhand with pistol as an offhand or vice versa? which combo works better? (faster killing and more survivability)

I really like essentially the perma-blind of black powder, but then the perma-clipple of 4 enemies from dancing dagger is awesome as well… I can’t decide… help please? thanks!

So I love playing ranged classes in these games… I first started with a ranger and I would almost fall asleep playing him… then switched to pp/bow thief… it was fun to play but the character lacked in both dmg and survivability, not that fun… I’ve been having a fun time playing my rifle/longbow warrior up to lvl 20 for a few days now… anyways… I’ve been trying to plan out my traits, I was gonna go with 25/25/0/10/10 initially… yes I wanted to be a bit glassy and deal good dmg with the rifle, but I realized that 25pts in strength/power doesn’t do much in terms of rifle/bow skills at all and I would only be putting points in there for more dmg… going beyond 10 pts in strength/power doesn’t seem to benefit me that much at all anymore…

I looked at adding points into defensive traits and the extra 15 points that I can take out of strength can be nicely put into defense/toughness (less dmg taken and to get adrenal health)… so the traits that I’m considering now are 10/25/15/10/10… very balanced I feel like, but not too spectacular at anything…

now my dilemma… 10/25/15/10/10 build seems to be really nice… but I really like dealing damage and killing enemies fast from a distance so I really want to use the 25/25/0/10/10 build… I just logically can’t justify that spec to myself… what do you guys think? is 25/25/0/10/10 doable for ranged PvE? or should I just suck it up and go with the more sensible 10/25/15/10/10 build? I mainly want to play PvE… and use rifle 90% of the time (bow for AoE)

thought? ideas? suggestions? thanks guys!

I rolled a warrior to simply have fun in GW2, and now I go on these forums and the only thing people are doing is complaining about this or that or how its not fun to play with this weapon or the warrior doesn’t kill fast enough or that people aren’t using team skills… and on and on and on…

Look, if you don’t like how the warrior plays, play a different class and not complain about it all day… I like my rifle and I like my signets and I don’t mind that it takes me 1.5 seconds longer to kill a mob than if I used a GS…

Whatever happened to playing games to have fun? Why did everyone suddenly turn into a mathematician to calculate crit chance and kill speed and regen speed and writing an algorithm for the most “efficient” warrior??? Seriously people… its a game… have fun with it… play a class that you want to play, use a weapon that you enjoy using and and remember that its just a game at the end of the day…

Peace… enjoy build calculations… I’m gonna go have fun…

I don’t really like those… maybe I never just gave the Nostromo an actual chance but it was returned for me… I’m much happier with my Naga Molten… that product seems like a nice workaround for a console to get more keys in but when you can have a superior product in an ACTUAL keyboard AND a mouse with 12 keys on it…the mouse takes a of bit getting used to but I tried both setups and the slightly improved comfort of the nostromo just doesn’t justify the loss of so many keys from thekeyboard for me… it’s a more expensive setup but honestly… just invest into a nice keyboard (Anansi for MMORPGs or Blackwidow recommended) and a Naga… will be much better than Nostromo… just runs ya $100 more… that’s the one downside…