Guild Wars 2

One more note for your upcoming guide 3.0 version. Yah!

“Master Maintenance Oil: Gain power equal to 6% of your toughness; Gain power equal to 4% of your vitality; +10 Experience from kills":

It does not work as this in-game description says. Currently, it boosts Precision not Power on Stormbluff server. Is it working for you?

Until this bug is fixed I’m using either:

1. Plate of Orrian Steak Frittes: +100 power, +70 vitality, +10 Experience from kills
2. Loaf of Omnomberry Bread: +100 vitality, +70 toughness, +10 Experience from kills

Sheobix in your ideal build above you list:

Lost Seal of Usoku x 2 (for P/V/T ascended rings). This is not achievable as ascended items are unique and therefore you can only equip one (also have to wait for the ring to random drop from a daily chest which is quite frustrating).

However the Royal Signet of Doric has the same stats as the Seal:

http://www.gw2db.com/items/71356-royal-signet-of-doric

I’m not thrilled about major fractal ginding and then waiting for random drops so I’m satisfied with getting the exotic Invaders ring from WvW or buying the exotic nightmare coil off trading post:

http://www.gw2db.com/items/72125-nightmare-coil

Sheobix:

Have you seen this helpful post by a mathematician player that found Necro is the most balanced/has the ideal split of all classes in regards to toughness and vitality?

http://teamlegacy.net/forum/topic/7265-math-might-vulnerability-and-toughness-isnt-good-in-spvp/page__st__40#entry96024

His formulas, according to my humble interpretation, validate your strategy that maintaining numerical balance of Vitality and Toughness moving forward (through max usage of crest of soldier etc.) is ruthlessly effective:

“Necromancer: base ratio 1:10. Yes, the necro is born perfect! An even split of vitality and toughness from here on out will do him well. (Max/Max 73.2 million EHP, 1:10 Ratio)…Necro is already getting the most EHP/stats possible at the start.”

What is most encouraging about “Juggermancer” is its baseline solidarity appears to offer great flexibility in terms of utility selection/playstyle as you have pointed out several times

Not to mention, I always play better when I am armed with the confidence of having a beastly build (and not fearing any class especially thieves sneaking up on me)!

Sheobix.8796:

let them waste their initiative on your DS pool and then begin your rotation. it takes marginal amounts of patience, but that’s how easy it is to win vs. a thief.

You did a wonderful job explaining why this build works from an equipment standpoint/theorycrafting but it would be equally helpful to hear how you begin and end your rotation

(you haven’t formally shared your Juggermancer rotation in detail). Thanks!

One more thing: The 700 boost in hp is also is indicative of only being 2 days into WVW week (3%), imagine what a difference the projected 8% bonuses make once you reach Thursday or the end of the week. It is like wearing 80 level rare gear versus 80 level exotic gear—totally unfair that people are getting screwed over this hard!

Cyrus.8261:

glock.2089:

As of tonight I am getting the bonuses finally. As one of the players that hasn’t had them since launch and not server hopping, I believe it might finally be fixed.

Thanks Anet.

Are you getting more health now in LA compared to LA overflow? I’m asking because I’m not totally clear on where the HP bonus should take effect, in PvE or only WvWvW.

For me, it’s still the same everywhere, overflow or not.

Cyrus yes the HP bonus takes effect in both PVE and WvW. Now that it is finally working I have 24,012 health in Lion’s Arch overflow but 24,732 health in Lion’s Arch Stormbluff isle server and in all 4 WvW zones 24,732.

The 1. HP boost combined with the 2. healing effectiveness gain and 3. endurance rejuvenation increase: together provide a noticeable difference in 1 v 1 situations, no longer kittened against bunker build guardians for example.

I guess I’m one of the lucky ones, wondering if they are implementing the fix server by server and still haven’t gotten to all. It does indeed sound like multiple bugs by the pervasiveness of the problem. Hope you get the fix soon.

Question for Sheobix:

Only thing I’m confused about this build is where does your condition removal come from, could you specify in regards to condition removal which remains vital in WvW?

thanks for posting this great build!

As of tonight I am getting the bonuses finally. As one of the players that hasn’t had them since launch and not server hopping, I believe it might finally be fixed.

Thanks Anet.

Thora.6428:

I run a power/minion build with my necro (30/0/20/20/0) and another alternative to life leeching with MH dagger (same specs).

• Stats : Mesmer is with Knights amulet (power,prec, vit) . The necro is with Soldier’s amulet (power, tough, vit).

Thora: could you post a link to your power build? thanks.

sinister.9216:

I feel kinda bad for SoS. Doesn’t matter how well you all are doing this week, no matter what happens, win or lose, you all still wont be considered legit. If you do win, SBI and JQ will blame it on fractal dungeons and Thanksgiving, attempting to trivialize your victory. If you somehow manage to lose at this point, you will be labeled as a bandwagon server.

Also, I heard that [Agg] is on your server now. I’d been wondering where our biggest WvW guild went. Funny that they bail on us when we hit T1, and now that they’re on your server, you’re in T1. Did [TDA] transfer there as well?

Anyway, Unless JQQ steps it up next week, looks like Blackgate will be back in T1 sooner than we thought.

Your flame emails are getting old Sin another broken record/ BG unsubstantiated conspiracy theorist spreading disinformation and ugliness with no apparent point. If you bothered to read five thread pages, you would see your main argument has been refuted repeatedly (support and recognition of SoS achievements this week has been virtually unanimous).

Stop trying to ride the coat tails of SoS and post in T2 please.

DivineBeing.2086:

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

only problem with this analogy is BG won nothing, legends in their own minds only.

If you even read the forums during BG’s first week, then you would see why many of BG’s wvw guilds transferred off, leaving what, that’s right, a ghost town of a server. And if the guilds didn’t transfer off, they merely stopped playing to drop to tier 2 (hence why they’re holding their ground there) because of all the whine.

Sorry but majority of players like to pride in their server. If your server was being accused of hacking and everyone would just dismiss the win based on that, than what’s the point of trying?

P.S. All servers had their hackers.

So yes, this analogy does in fact work since BG would have won.

The spoiled brat defense: blame everyone except yourself for your server’s inability to win in T1. Mommy Mommmy bad men accused our server of cheating which caused people to leave which caused us to lose…coulda shoulda woulda… its always the same with you guys.

What an incredible disservice this attitude has done to BG’s reputation…in the end its still self inflicted wounds and no one is buying it.

I shouldn’t have such expectations for a response from someone like you lol.

Typical, you can’t see the facts. BG = dominating T2. BG = had a higher point lead than what SoS has right now, MID WEEK. Than all of a sudden BG dropped off the face of the Earth running out manned buff and no commanders online remainder of the week? Sorry, it isn’t hard to destroy an empty server.

BG dominating in T2? They can’t be with the numbers BG had in T1, not even possible.

Fact is, BG got killed by SBI and JQ’s exploit whining. BG’s main wvw guilds stop playing or transfer off, SBI demolish BG in a sheer numbers game at that point.

Proof? Look at the whining towards SoS.SoS is doing great! They are going to win so seriously suck it up and realize you aren’t the bes and learn from this.

Create a straw man argument that has nothing to do with the original point of contention, an easily identifiable debate technique that never works (frankly I really don’t care what you are doing or not doing in T2 rofl).

Secondly, you keep on mistaking your personal opinions for “facts” based in reality, in the words of the great Daniel Patrick Moynihan: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” BG lost in T1, do you deny this? Everything else in your posts is utter nonsense, personal excuse making, and defeat rationalizing.

Thirdly, I commend SoS on an amazing performance they are doing great this is based on verifiable testable results in the real world not the fuzzy hypothetical fantasy world within which you claim BG was unfairly denied victory in T1.

Jedbacca.6297:

Okay, I think the notification is going to start spreading around to all of SBI WvW’ers to put this Daish person on ignore and to not follow the commander tag. Thank you for the heads up

Jed i wish it were that simple he is running around EB as I type this berating our commanders and general players, of course speaking in the third person, and draining resources. Players new to the map are following his icon not knowing better.

He has gone from being a mildly amusing story to a full blown nuisance. To add insult to injury, he has made several statements in general chat about women being inferior to men.

RiversOnFire.3607:

Daish.6139:

Azariah.8420:

Daish makes a lot of predictions(like losing the Halloween week), Daish is generally wrong.

Nobody cares what you say anymore, because the only thing you seem capable of doing is sitting in a map(or the forums) and being snarky. One day I hope to see you contribute something useful to a conversation, but you’ll understand if I don’t hold my breath.

This match has so far been great fun, will be interesting to see how the week unfolds.

Daish just explained whats going to cause SoS to fail

when you know whats causing the failure it helps you improve

if you dont know why your failing it takes much longer to fix the issues

There is one commander—im not going to say who— we all origin sos know about. he is so predictable, when the things below happen, we all know hes around.

1. he was the NO.5 best commander in SoS, well, we have only 5. When he did some dump things, We told him that was wrong. he always reply:" you dont know anything about this game", and one day he said so proudly:" xxx(and he always refer himself as xxx? got 574 total captures in WvW ." I checked mine, I got 700+ and some of my friends got 1000+, but, “you dont know anything about this game” to all of us.

2. he comes in a BL, the next second, chatbox is full of “follow xxx” , “rally on xxx”, “come to xxx”, no matter what you are doing, he asks you to drop it and follow him.

3. he once dropped 2 rams under our own tower gate.

4. if there is an argument between commanders in WvW, it must be xxx vs other commanders.

5. he learnt a new trick. he led 30 players to hills, he placed 4 cate under west wall. It would be a perfect tactic without one fact: there was another wall about 100 yards away which had only 1/4 health… how did he miss that?

6. he changes his guilds tag so often, coz he is too good that no guild would be able to keep him.

7. when he fails, it must be “we dont have enough numbers”. when other commanders win after he left, it must be “they all left this BL”. He actually say that when ppl are so happy for the big vitory.

8.“you must stop attacking red/blue/green, we need blue/green/red to attack green/red/blue”. he controls all.

9. he always predicts: " SoS is going to lose, im leaving for the week." somehow, we always started to win right after he said that. and he always come back in 2-3 days, like he never said anything.

10. ppl folow him because they should follow, ppl dont follow him because they must be stupid.

11. he has a thing with green/blue/redlake and mom.

12. he has patient, he can keep attacking same green/blue/redlake for 4 hrs without taking it. who else can do that?

13. he never cares about what you are doing, for him, you are just following(smart)/ not following(stupid) him. if you attack red/blue/green when he is not, then you extremely stupid. coz of NO.8

14. When we pushing in one BL, we cap towers and a keep and going for next one. he jumps in “its meaningless to fight here, abc BL needs you, all teleport to [xyz waypoint]”

Im not saying the name, but, if you read any of the 14 above to your friends who played long enough in SoS WvWvW, they know who Im talking about.

he is the one. and he wont be around next week. cheers

DivineBeing.2086:

glock.2089:

DivineBeing.2086:

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

only problem with this analogy is BG won nothing, legends in their own minds only.

If you even read the forums during BG’s first week, then you would see why many of BG’s wvw guilds transferred off, leaving what, that’s right, a ghost town of a server. And if the guilds didn’t transfer off, they merely stopped playing to drop to tier 2 (hence why they’re holding their ground there) because of all the whine.

Sorry but majority of players like to pride in their server. If your server was being accused of hacking and everyone would just dismiss the win based on that, than what’s the point of trying?

P.S. All servers had their hackers.

So yes, this analogy does in fact work since BG would have won.

The spoiled brat defense: blame everyone except yourself for your server’s inability to win in T1. Mommy Mommmy bad men accused our server of cheating which caused people to leave which caused us to lose…coulda shoulda woulda… its always the same with you guys.

What an incredible disservice this attitude has done to BG’s reputation…in the end its still self inflicted wounds and no one is buying it.

DivineBeing.2086:

You are in the same boat as BG was.

BG won = we are hackers.
BG lost = we suck.

JQ and SBI are filled with excuses. Welcome to Tier 1.

only problem with this analogy is BG won nothing, legends in their own minds only.

[/quote]We will be back. JQQ will move to tier 2 sometime[/quote]

You might be back sooner than anticipated as SoS is out to a huge lead and JQ or SBI might be dropping, congrats to SoS for outstanding play so far.

Good luck SoS, I’ve had the pleasure of facing your forces already on SBI and have received several “bows” and “salutes” from your players which is a good sign you are as classy a server as advertised

SBI in the lead after overcoming a 16k point differential in approximately 12 hours

Thank you BlackGate for seven pages of hilarious temper tantrums that made me laugh so hard I spit up coffee on my monitor.

Time to run along and let the grown ups fight in Tier 1. I look forward to Sea Of Sorrow’s eventual arrival, they appear to be a worthy adversary for JQ and SBI.

It works if you switch weapons every five seconds using the fast hands trait

warhorn for mobility issues

sword #2 savage leap ability is arguably the best gap closer in the game on a ridiculously low and useful 8 second cooldown!

as an added bonus—never have trouble with mesmers again as mace #1 ability “shatters” their clones on third swing in the event your CTRL T gets removed by a friendly.

Yes the dps is subpar but the rationale of any mace/shield build is to wear your opponent down. Personally I prefer the long drawn out kills anyways as I can savor the victory.

Runeblade is right on the money!!:

I’ve tried EVERYTHING and nothing for warrior in WvW and sPVP compares to mace/shield as a primary weapon and Sword/warhorn as a secondary weapon (using fast hands of course). Hammer animations can be seen from MILES away.

MACE is the most underrated defensive weapon in the game. For those that say it is “terribad” you need try mace in defensive builds/rune of soldier/cleric’s exotics/shouts heal builds—where it was intended to be utilized.

Don’t listen to the dumb herd. Try things out for yourself.