Guild Wars 2

Littlefeather.8623:

Kwll.1468:

I can’t wait to try a troll spirit weapons spec with scepter and greatsword. It will smoke people 1v1.

You actually use Scepter?

IMO, Guardians who cant face tank should have rolled a Warrior or Ranger…

You ever fought a real GS Guardian (3.9k Attack/3.5 Armor) toe to toe before? Yea?, I bet thats why you would use Scepter I guess….

Lol. Some people are so stuck in their ways.

I haven’t run AH in WvW in six months at least. It’s not necessary.

Sadly, I think that the great irony of this update is that there is no more, or potentially even less incentive to go 30 Zeal. No one is going to go for 10% of power → Condition Damage when at best you are getting 50 DPS out of it. Burn builds are flat out not viable for Guardians in anything but solo. Further, even with 50% more damage Sword and Hammer are terribly weak in WvW and dungeons and never see use around significant AoE due to their still abysmal HP. A better trait would be one that halved their AoE damage received. So now, people will go 20 Zeal for the massively improved Greatsword Power and stop there. It’s a shame, too.

Not sure, but I seem to recall a rescaling of certain character models in Beta and those were the new, post-change numbers. Norn were actually bigger in the past.

Human males at max height are six feet tall, norn males are nine. You can probably work out the rest from there.

Considering the massive amount of buffs other classes are getting? It’s not far-fetched at all, and the 30% Orb of Wrath speed has been in the works for ages now. There’s a dev post on it in these forums.

Blind Exposure is a small Sword buff, so it’s not like it was completely left out. It just wasn’t addressed directly.

I am going to rage so hard if Aetherblade Caches are what I think they are. Come on, Anet.

Parktou.4263:

Teamkiller.4315:

Autoattack has no cooldown and does pretty high dps when you consider our other skills on all the weapons. Why is it I see so many guardians not autoattacking except with maybe staff or scepter. Really now -_-. In duels a lot of guardians simply wait around doing absolutely nothing for their #2 skill on the hammer or greatsword…

You must be on a higher tier where individual skill has been forgotten about.

EDIT: since gw2 players are mostly oversensitive, this isn’t an insult, just an observation.

It is a pretty vague insult if you don’t actually explain what your reasoning is. You basically just told him he swims in the kiddie end of the pool without explaining the difference between that and the other side. It’s very arrogant sounding.

Well, we don’t strictly need another ranged weapon, it’s true. But scepter’s autoattack and Smite are rather boring attacks, and some neat laser-bow action would be welcomed.

It’s not, it’s brand new NPC only armor.

Alas, this thread comes up at least once or twice a month but Anet isn’t going to give it to us any more than they are going to give Engineers maces.

Whack/light/activate 100 objects is the new kill 10 rats.

Direksone.3867:

Thanks for the input thus far. Why Hallowed Ground instead of Purging Flames? Lasts a little longer, but does not damage. I will use Purging Flames and my Blast Finisher in conjuction so timing is no matter. Any other reason why?

Shelter is something I haven’t used yet, but will look into it and the Focus has been a while as well, will check it out again. Thanks!

Hallowed Ground has enough time to get two blasts in. The burning you get from Purging Flames isn’t really going to contribute terribly much to your damage, and it only removes one condition rather than one on every pulse as you would think given the description.

Also, mass Stability is godly in a lot of fights, and you’re giving out a boon that not every class has access too so it’s quite helpful, properly timed.

P.s., don’t use Judge’s Intervention in dungeons. Use Contemplation of Purity.

Writ of Persistence, instead of Two Handed Mastery. Hallowed Ground instead of Purging Flames if you’re interested in self combos. Make sure you use Smite Condition if you’re using Monks Focus. Use Sword/Focus as your off set so you can nail super high bursts as needed. Use Berserker gear, all of it. Between MF and almost perm Protection you’ll be fine.

Edit: Strength in Numbers is pretty bad, use Purity. Then swap your heal to Shelter. Use it strategically as a block.

I’d pay twenty bucks to never hear my norn female guardian say “Defense, then offense” ever again.

digiowl.9620:

foofad.5162:

If you’re in an area where you know you can get chain stunned, bring a stunbreaker. Or two, even. If that isn’t enough learn to dodge. If dodging and two stunbreakers can’t keep you safe the problem isn’t with the content, it’s with you.

P.s., stability is your friend.

err, seems to favor certain professions: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stability

And yet, every class has a stunbreak and dodges.

DeShadowWolf.6854:

Onshidesigns.1069:

If anyone does not like the holograms. GW2 in based in the future after GW and not a medieval fantasy game.

O.o I didn’t realize futuristic people fought with swords and bows and staffs, and didn’t have any sort of tanks or armor beyond cloth/leather/plate mail…just sayin’

The Charr are on the verge of an industrial revolution. The Charr use tanks. Everyone can make guns, even the Norn. It’s not supposed to be futuristic, but it isn’t classc medieval fantasy.

If you’re in an area where you know you can get chain stunned, bring a stunbreaker. Or two, even. If that isn’t enough learn to dodge. If dodging and two stunbreakers can’t keep you safe the problem isn’t with the content, it’s with you.

P.s., stability is your friend.

Ezeriel.9574:

Isn’t autoattack the worst thing a guard can do?

I mean, lets say you are GS, you #3 in, #2, and dodge away before you get hit!

In the world of 8k hits, you can’t just stand there pressing #1

And after you come out of the dodge, you just… sit there? What? :l

Considering I do 2000~ DPS auto attacking, I’d say killing the 65k health per minute guy in 30 seconds or so is about right.

Thank god someone finally put this to rest. Well done.

You only need ten of the 14 achievements. You can ignore the Moa one if you want.

All of the effects that I’m aware of that say “allies” also includes the caster. That goes for EM, Pure of Voice, the whole nine yards.

Christos de Soufre.3802:

Is this really a thing?

I’ve never heard of this either.

Agreed. Too many people are getting screwed on this and it’s completely unfair. Even in poker you can figure out the odds of any given hand.

It also stacks with Soldier runes if you were curious.

It says “stun breaker” right there in the tooltip. SyG and SY are both stunbreakers.

I think it’s pretty well balanced against Ele water staff. We have two direct heals and an autoattack that does mediocre single target damage but cleaves five targets. They have one direct heal, one large AoE regen, plus the really piddly heal on autoattack that only benefits people in melee with what they are hitting. We don’t need to heal on Staff auto. We already heal on Mace auto.

It’s this mountain right here.

It should just be like the door events from Halloween.

Yeah, this is really terrible. It needs to be more like the Halloween event with the doors where everyone got a chance to tag a lot of mobs because it was a full scale event.

“The Rich Dragon Coffer is now available in the Consumable category of the Gem Store for 100 gems each, or 5 for 400 gems and 25 for 2,000 gems. This special festival box always contains Dragon Bash candy and also has a chance to contain fireworks, a Mini Holographic Risen Knight, and rarely a Dragon’s Jade Weapon Skin Ticket. Rich Dragon Coffers contain all the same items as the Dragon Coffers that drop commonly from Dragon Bash enemies, but have better chances at rare items.”

No guaranteed ticket. Likely just as horrendous an RNG-fest as Sclerite.

aophts.9862:

So, i just ignore healing power? I go PTV or PPT or a mix of both??

If your goal is to do dungeons, Berserker and Valkyrie gives you enough health to not get demolished by conditions and loads of damage. That’s what you want. Then your build can decide what your actual role is.

Your Cleric set is not useless. It’s just too much. Cleric armor with more DPS-heavy trinkets like Valkyrie or Berserker will make for a more useful hybrid as opposed to the terrible damage you’re dealing with all Cleric.

I actually started using it back in October when it was still bugged to give 50 healing instead of power and I was running Altruistic Healing, because when it procced it was often a nice 500-700 HP heal. In that context it was pretty nice. But nowadays when I’m running purely selfish personal damage builds, it’s really not as useful as high uptime fury.

The only thing that procs off crit is EM, and that vigor trait that had a 5 second cooleown – and while EM is nice, AH without EM still works. I mean, to be clear, I’m not a huge fan of AH to begin with but it would be better than Battle Presence or PoV for him.

Try 0/0/30/20/20 with Altruistic Healing instead. You’re basically set up for it anyway. Empower will basically heal you to full in a party.

The problem with Cleric gear is that your damage is going to be really terrible. You’re probably doing a quarter to a third of the damage of those Berserker warriors in your group, and your added utility isn’t spectacular.

As an experiment, save up a few gold to buy a full suite of rares in Berserker/Valkyrie, and find yourself a DPS build on the forums here (There are lots – look for anything that’s 10/30/x/x/x or x/25/x/25/x or similar) and just try it out. You can also try backing off of your Cleric armor in favor of something else like Berserker and modifying your build slightly to have more damage options. Gw2buildcraft is your friend.

Oh dear, here we go.

Using my power as an example (1914), we get the following damage for Torch 5 and Sword’s full autoattack chain:

Cleansing Flame: 2090 damage over 10 hits, 209 damage/hit, 4.25 second channel with a .25 second wind-up animation for a total of 4.5

Sword chain: 562, 562, 351×3 for a total of 2177 damage over 2.5 seconds (1.5 seconds worth of attacks and one second of animation between)

Sword autoattack has a (non-critical) DPS of 870.8. Torch has a (non-critical) DPS of 464. This is single-target. In order to match the single-target total DPS of sword, you have to hit two or more enemies with torch 5 for the full duration. Against mace, it’s even worse. Mace DPS is slightly higher than sword due to a middle swing that hits harder. Scepter is roughly similar.

So, since Torch 5 gives you half the damage, only cleaves 3 targets instead of 5 like other AoEs, and only cures conditions if you breathe on people, you’re much better off just swinging your autoattack and using the comparatively instant Focus 4 to cure people’s conditions.

I used to run Pack runes exclusively on my damage builds, and while the raw stats are nice, the 5% effect is really nothing to write home about. It’s kind of neat, but it doesn’t happen enough to make a difference. I’d much rather use 5 Citadels + 1 Ruby.

Neat build btw.

GW2 won’t get OR support until GW2 adds first person view, which is basically never. Orbiting third person cameras the likes of which are used in most third person games with camera controls just don’t mesh well with the OR. The only way I can see it happening is if they just allowed the camera to roll, pitch, and yaw akittens present orbit location independently of its location relative to your character, but then you’d feel like a floating camera, not a person.

It’s NPC only armor, it’s also worn by that one lady in the Human storyline.

Pairing Scepter with Shield is a better idea, because being ranged/back line gives you a much better opportunity to apply protection to your teammates via shield 4’s cone. There is no DPS advantage to using Torch 5, in fact it is a net loss due to the time it takes to channel. If you want to clear teammates conditions, consider focus instead.

Nah, there was a fashion contest on Tarnished Coast and their favorite person didn’t win.

You can easily score 6k+ final hits with Mace auto in a Berserker setup with Might and Vuln. 10/30/0/20/10 Fiery Wrath, RHS, Superior Aria, Writ of Exaltation, Unscathed Contender. 0/30/0/20/20 is also great with Mace, with a +20% boon duration food. You can then use whatever runes you want and have really high boon uptimes. For the highest DPS you can reasonably maintain without worrying about Aegis, 10/30/0/30/0 works very well. Aria/Might/Exaltation in Honor, or if you are having issues with conditions, Aria/Might/PoV.

I use Mace and Sword fairly interchangeably, mostly preferring sword in WvW for the extra mobility and Mace in PvE. But I use both in either setting.

Mace naturally has higher single-target DPS in its autoattack than sword does, so you can actually get away with not taking the +5% damage trait to a certain extent. Consider 10/30/0/30/0 or 10/30/0/20/10 with Empowering Might, and Unscathed Contender. Use Retreat as a DPS tool.

Shield is an awesome weapon for its knock back and heal, plus protection. Focus is an awesome weapon for its blind and blocking. Torch is a terrible weapon for what it is supposed to do. Don’t use it in PvE.

It really just depends on your traits and whatnot, but Focus is probably a better bet for you because of its synergy with Radiance. Get the vuln on blind trait and you’ve got 3 sources of blinding – Flashing Blade, whatever focus 4 is called, and Justice spam. You can contribute a lot of vuln that way and all those AOE blinds really help mitigate damage, especially from enemies with slow attacks. Sadly, focus 5 is a little iffy in terms of how much it actually helps you because of its 5 charges. It’s not like Warrior shield which makes you practically invulnerable for 3 seconds. But it does still work as a get-out-of-jail card in some boss fights.

Personally I use shield on my DPS builds though because it’s a source of protection and the knock back + heal is quite nice. Not to mention in projectile heavy fights you can completely save a teammate from getting killed with it. Thinking of Grawl fractal here.

Sigils and runes in PvP often have different, or lower effect anyway to begin with. Balancing it around sPvP is not an acceptable answer.

Despite the lack of minors that are worthwhile, Zeal 20 for Fiery Wrath and Greatsword damage is still worthwhile for GS damage builds. 20/25/x/x/x offers spectacular damage for that weapon. Everything else about it is terrible though, including the Grandmaster traits. You can also make the case for 20/30/x/x/x Scepter power/RHS if you use Scepters as your primary weapon.

You have to actually select which aspects you want to keep. In the end you will be left with one item.

Khenzy.9348:

foofad.5162:

Sorry, but you’re wrong about the damage bonus. Yes, skills have their own coefficients. But for a lot of classes those coefficients are the same as many one handed attacks. Guardian, specifically, is a great example of this. First two Greatsword autos are .8 coefficient, third is 1.2. Sword is .8, .8, 1.5 but doesn’t cleave. So yeah, Greatsword does do higher damage on the first two, and the third swing is balanced around being able to cleave.

Oh come on! We all know that’s not the reason why two-handers don’t have a second sigil slot; and they wont tweak those numbers if they ever allow a second sigil becouse not all sigils offer a direct damage increase either.

Was there a rebuttal in there somewhere? I don’t know why they don’t allow two sigils on the same weapon, but I do know that the higher damage output of that weapon in general is a potential factor to balance around. If you were to further increase the damage output by allowing two sigils there would be even more reason to disregard one handed weapons. In other words, Anet would be forced to rebalance two handed weapon skills if they were to do that. And that’s a huge amount of work just to satisfy a comparatively insignificant desire.

Yeah, it would be neat, but not having two sigils doesn’t break anything. You really aren’t missing out on much, most people stick a Force on the offhand anyway. Certainly nothing with a cooldown.

Sorry, but you’re wrong about the damage bonus. Yes, skills have their own coefficients. But for a lot of classes those coefficients are the same as many one handed attacks. Guardian, specifically, is a great example of this. First two Greatsword autos are .8 coefficient, third is 1.2. Sword is .8, .8, 1.5 but doesn’t cleave. So yeah, Greatsword does do higher damage on the first two, and the third swing is balanced around being able to cleave.