Guild Wars 2

As the title suggests. Please change it since it’s so annoying especially for PvE necro. You may agro kitten during trash run

Wow I laughed so hard. Thx guys.

Interesting, I don’t play ranger. Why do people want it? spotter and frost spirit, CC bot?
Or preparing druid for hard encounter? is druid better than the base ranger?

So any thought about the meta team comp for fractals after HoT ? I guess revenant will take a spot there.

This is my guess:
Mesmer/Guardian
Ele
Revenant
Warrior
Engi/Thief

So how good is reaper’s dps? is it at mid-tier? I wanna roll one but still doubtful ha3…
*looking for another class to explore coz maining 1 or 2 classes is boring

Please

Sorry If I’m out of topic, but anyone has the reaper build for PVE?
The reaper line will boost necro’s dps , right?

Thx for the info.. coz my OCD tells me to follow the dps rotation as strict as possible… but I also think it’s not possible since you need to react on the given situation. So just remember the skill priority and use them when they are ready is enough

y 12-15 is easy to pull off and enough for a good group.

So, how good do you guys perform the rotation? for the condi rotation, I think I can only remember or pull off 16 skills from the rotation. The rest only spams the prioritized skills.

Hi, I’m learning engi in fractals. I believe condi engi has better overall dps over power engi. So I think condi is the way to go. But when the encounter is immune to condi, I’d better off with power, right?Can someone tell me where I should use power instead of condi?

also accepting any tips and tricks for new engi – any video?. I’m still practicing the complex dps rotation and improving my muscle memory for engi.

Jerus.4350:

A little confused here. Why is BoB/Orbital a problem being pre cast? HT is also better precasted. Just trying to understand why that’s an issue? Trying to think of the situation you’re looking to solve and can’t figure it out.

It’s a problem bcoz I know and I do use BoB and orbital for blasting. What I want to know is how many blasts can you fit in 4s window by pressing keys. BoB and orbital are called before the 4s window and they will fire off at the 4s window so I’m not interested in that.

So in a coordinated group, what blasts do you use for prestacking might? (let’s say might instead of stealth )

Mork vom Ork.2598:

Just FYI – stealth stacks are limited at 5, so blasting smoke bomb more than 5 times gives no reward.

oh wow I don’t know that ha3… thx

kubetz.3058:

There was an old discussion about the amount of blast finishers one can do in the water field from the healing turret and here is a gif demonstrating 7 . Note: This was before Orbital Strike was added to the game.

So landing 4 blasts is possible even if you exclude Big ol’ Bomb (and Orbital Strike). Thumper Turret can give you 3 blasts alone.

Is your condition not to precast anything, so all the turrets must be placed after the Smoke Bomb? If yes, then what is the reason for that if I may ask?

It’s for pve. Detonating turrets will waste my utility slots, I may need them for next encounter. For the precast, I usually use Orbital strike and BOB too before the smoke bomb. I only wanna know whether most people can blast that many like in the guide.

The V.8759:

Easily:

• Place Healing Turret
• Place Big ol’ Bomb
• Smoke Bomb
• Orbital Strike (2 blasts if traited) + DetonateHealing Turret at same time
• Acid Bomb
• Shield 4

If you train it a bit this should all fit in.

I can do that. Don’t count the orbital strike and BOB since they are precasted. You need to land : fire blast, acid bomb, shield, thumper, healing turret in 4s window.

So I read the guide here http://dulfy.net/2014/10/24/gw2-engineer-class-guide-by-doomblade-and-element/.

Can you really get 4 blasts from 4s smoke field? I’ve only managed to get 3 blasts : healing turret, shield 4, and acid bomb. I’m trying to land the flame blasts but it’s so hard for me.

In the guide, I should use thumper also. I wonder how slow my hands compared to others.

-Edit-
Don’t mention the BOB and orbital strike since they are pre-casted.
Turret is not an option except thumper since I don’t wanna get cooldown on my utilities.

Well, after several attempts, I can land (acid bomb, flame blast, healing turret, shield 4) in 4s. The key is to not wait/look at your kit skills. Now I need to squezze in rumble there

wow you just missed your precursor.

How do you get infinite infused stone? just drop before throwing?

As the title suggest, is it unblockable too?

Iris Ng.9845:

gin.7158:

Iris Ng.9845:

When picking out a class, just make sure it has at least a cleave, a block, a projectile defense, and a cheap stun break. Then you’re golden.

WTB block/invul for thief pls.

@OP
IMO you can’t go wrong with warrior for PVE. But I personally don’t like their animation (no flashy moves) and blade trail is so ugly with standard gs. I suggest you to try every class first if you don’t want to regret. Just a little note, Necro and Ranger are usually hated by community for pve.

Since ele and warrior conquers the solo record, so I regard those classes the best for pve.

Which community?

and thief can use staff if they care about block.

Well, a bit misnomer maybe. Let’s say some people instead of community ha3.

Yay daredevil.

Iris Ng.9845:

When picking out a class, just make sure it has at least a cleave, a block, a projectile defense, and a cheap stun break. Then you’re golden.

WTB block/invul for thief pls.

@OP
IMO you can’t go wrong with warrior for PVE. But I personally don’t like their animation (no flashy moves) and blade trail is so ugly with standard gs. I suggest you to try every class first if you don’t want to regret. Just a little note, Necro and Ranger are usually hated by community for pve.

Since ele and warrior conquers the solo record, so I regard those classes the best for pve.

Smokin Dice.9103:

gin.7158:

you’ve got to be kidding me ha3… If they buff MM necro even more, I will faceroll solo queue at PVP.

you might not have read my post maybe, but non of my suggestions affect pvp in any major way..

destroying your own minions wonth help in pvp, and make them aoe immun should only be applied to npcs and not other players, that would be op indeed.

Y my bad0

you’ve got to be kidding me ha3… If they buff MM necro even more, I will faceroll solo queue at PVP.

am I one of the five necro ? ;p

Oxidia.8103:

I’m not bothered by mossman exploit, but the archdiviner one. My pug party wiped around 12 times for that stupid exploit where you stack on top of the wall, we could have done it 3 times allready normal way. When i suggested normal way they acted as if i insulted everybody’s mum.

This is so gold

Nothing new… time to read another thread

In a solo situation, is strength still the best for warrior? or scholar is better?

My friend told me it’s because there are dredge below XD…. Ok, thx. Good to know.

Is it true for every dredge or only true at dredge fractal?

Hi, Can anyone tell me why blasting stealth sometimes makes me in combat at dredge fractal?

Black powder is strong too. I think thief will always have a spot considering their mobility and dps

So what? just take herald. You know build diversity is long gone since they introduced specialization. Idk, as long as rev is strong or has good build for every game mode, I’m OK with it.

Is auto attack with staff better than sword?

Wait until it gets nerfed

Rev is so good atm.

Idk people say the dps of rev is around staff ele and condi engi. I think the boon enhancement is a good contribution especially in raid maybe.

So has anyone planned a build for PvE revenant? I wanna try for the next BWE.

Ha3. It’s even better than turret engi. In unranked, the times when I lose is either against good premade or my team is dc-ed or sucks real hard. I rarely lose 1v1 but a good premade can easily gang you up. I even occassionally kill people when I have like 1k ping because of death nova.

Although, moa can be considered as a hard-counter for mm necro. But I rarely meet good engi or you can play smart by rotating around the engi. It’s also hard to fight against staff ele or d/d ele (of course ha3).

and yes my MMR is high, occasionally meet noscoc at unranked, that’s when I know I may lose. I don’t play ranked anymore since I only wanna goof around.

Well at least, the d/d ele QQ is brighter than MM necro. I don’t see MM necro will be tweaked.

Dear OP, I feel your pain. Now it’s very hard to get them, the only viable way is to do chest farm at silverwaste. Dungeon and fractals are also a good source if you like hard content but chest farm is the fastest afaik.

Before the specialization patch, we were able to get this currency from leveling up. Someone even told me they have 4k spirit shards now because they got a lot before the patch.

thief and warrior are mobile in every game mode.

SlyDevil.3952:

deSade.9437:

RE ele talk: I find lupi solo on ele to be very annoying to the point of excruciating if you get bad aa rng. It scared me away from practicing further. Then again, I’m a noob ele.

You can go d/f with vigor on crit, energy sigil of you really need, you can go dodge,earth 2, dodge, etc… to infinitely block the AA, then on the barrage for phase 2 you dodge backwards and earth 2 after. Phase 2/3 you can swirling for 1/3 of the time, dodge others, you can use 1 dodge then burning speed out of his aoe life drain, dodge on backward diagonals during phase 3 to bait out domes and walk back in as he starts the animation to give 3-4 secs of AA less time. Rotate in lightning storm/icebow during swirling winds after a lifedrain. Obby flesh for when you have no clue what you’re doing with your life.

Gosh Ele so OP.

Warriors are warriors. It says all we need to know

I have no idea how you can end up with such idea… Ty for entertaining though

Ok.. good to know.

Hi, Can anyone tell me how to get out of combat at mai trin when stealthing at the corner? Sometimes I’m stuck at combat like forever.

I also wonder whether you can get out of combat without stealth or does steath help you to get out of combat?

obal.3218:

I can look into things myself now and that was next on my list. I’ve looked into gs and hammer so far and refined somethings but still have scepter and condi left. I’ll let you know soon.

Edit – I’m finding Scepter -> GS to be top dps for shorter fights in which bosses won’t really move much. This would would assume 10+ smite hits and I didn’t look into frostbow. I still need to look into mobbing more and get some new condi rotations added in and I’ll update the guide with everything I’ve looked into.

Thx Obal, appreciate it.

Corran.4957:

Although I bet even you have to admit, that most people that want “meta” groups dont actually understand them.

For instance, there was someone that kicked me out of a group for not having scholer runes (had strength as wasnt making a 2nd set just for pve when i know it wont be my main after HoT) …. I joined them on another account that had a scholer rune set on armour. Guess what, most of the group was rarely above 90% health and thus their scholer runes were useless… when questioned on it they simply told me that it still better to use that when only get the bonus 10-20% of the time then to use another rune where you will always have the bonus but is only 5% boost.
Hell even if you didnt know how meta groups should would, takes very little knowledge to know that you need to be above 90% health no less then 50% of the fight else a rune that gives 5% dmg increase for the entire fight is better.

I didn’t stay in the group of course, did not want to help them through it on an account I don’t care about… but I was just too curious that day to not do it after the attitude they previously gave me!

….
Although this thread is rather pointless, that I also have to admit

Hmm… I believe it’s around 25% scholar uptime.

People take my sarcasm seriously. If you wanna learn how to play melee properly for future challenging content – or dungeon or fractal, and wanna use SW as a place to get familiar with guardian, use dungeon build.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE/first

Use GS – Mace/Focus for defending forts. For the sigils, you may want to replace sigil of air with sigil of speed.

How Am I Supposed to Survive?

• Blind Spam – Virtue of Justice Spam, Leap of Faith, Ray of Judgement
• Block Rotations – Virtue of Courage, Retreat, Shelter, Shield of Wrath, Renewed Focus, Shield of the Avenger, Protector’s Strike
• Projectile Defense – Wall of Reflection, Shield of the Avenger, Sanctuary (if need be)
• Crowd Control – Binding Blades for grouping mobs to kill quicker, Line of Warding or Ring of Warding when luring to a LoS spot to keep them interrupted while you attack freely and blind them from behind the line/ring
• Dodge – You have some vigor from Vigorous Precision if you choose to bring it
• Condition Removal – Purging Flames, Absolute Resolution, Ray of Judgement, and Whirls in light fields, Cleansing Flame
• Perma Protection if you run hammer
• DPS – Stuff will die faster than you! Rallying off good dps is usually better than reviving.

Guardian is all about knowing enemies’ mechanic. Bring reflect, condi cleanse, stability as needed. For example teragriff, people are downed because the knockdown, use save yourself, stand your ground or indomitable courage trait to survive against that.

If you still have problem, tell us which specific boss you are having problem with.

Well, the bottom line : Please don’t use WvW or PvP build for open world if you want to be “useful”. But it’s your right to do so. Hell, you can even run staff guard with nomad gear and just press 1 all day long, people won’t care about it. If you still die with that, try warrior.

For the scepter build, isn’t gs better than focus? so Gs + Sc/F→T. I think the initial burst is higher with gs than focus. you can pre-use/swap focus into torch before fight also.

I cry reading all these suggestions T.T
Pretty much, equip staff, press 1 all day long = profit
Run nomad gear so you can’t die. Equip all signets so don’t need to press any utility

You know what, I don’t have any problem with this if it’s for safe trio pug.

The problem is when people run this build in a 5 man group and think it’s good. I’ve met several of them.