Guild Wars 2

Oh, for runes… I’ve tried all kinds of setups in PVP. By far my favorite are runes of Lyssa. The precision is great of course, but that condition wipe/boons on elite use is simply amazing. I know most ppl think timewarp is OP, but Lyssa Runes + Mass Invis have helped me pull off some really interesting plays

I don’t pve so this is all from wvw/pvp experience.

With full zerker and food buffs I was able to get my crit damage bonus over 100%, and it was quite fun. It was just too glassy for me in WvW though, and I felt like I was leaving a lot on the table with the prof since so many of our skills are geared towards conditions.

I was constantly respeccing between phantasm and shatter builds, switching gear sets. It just never felt quite right running all power/crit or all condition.

Now I run berserker armor, with Chrysocola (cnd/pwr/vit) jewlery and orbs (no pve = broke). Carrion staff zerker GS or sword/X. This gives me a comfortable mix of offensive and defensive stats. I’ll have to double check the numbers, but power is around 1700, 1000 condition dmg, ~40% crit and crit dmg, and ~20k health.

It all comes down to your playstyle and build, though. Afaik my 10/25/20/0/15 build isn’t among the more popular ones. It’s just what works for me after a few hundred hours with the profession.

I use a mix of carrion, rampager’s and zerker. Full power builds felt a little weird to me, with so many of our skills about conditions, but full condition (rabid) just didn’t have any punch.

The best way is to /dance while their buddy gets off the res, then down them again. Ragequit is 100% effective.

Sword/sword is fantastic for shatter or clone spam builds in pvp. It’s really the only weapon set that lets you get three illusions up immediately with no utility skills/dodges.

For WvW I got more mileage out of the GS.

Calcifire.1864:

I personally think the skill is backwards, it should be a dash to the target, leaving a clone at your position, like a reverse phase retreat, that way, even if you’re at 601 range, you’re at least getting SOMETHING from the skill, rather than “lolol ur 2 far awai, no skill 4 u, but u can has this cooldown if u want lolol”

Yessss, this would be a great way to fix it. Worse than using it out of range (something I can improve myself) are the pathing issues, especially in pvp. Unless I’m getting the drop on a totally stationary target, I don’t expect the clone to get there.

Fjandi.2516:

Edit: and pls anet nerf fiery great sword and tornado. Other elites just pale in comparison.

You keep your kitten dirty hands off the fiery greatsword. It’s not OP by any stretch, but it’s hella fun :P

Leadfoot.9071:

People run lots of builds that don’t specialize in 1v1 as it’s primarily a team oriented game. I can see that a lot of these people do not want to be harrassed with duel requests. That being said, I don’t see any reason not to add dueling – maybe in certain areas only, maybe with a per-player option to turn off the ability for other players to attempt to duel you. It’s annoying when you actually want to join a server and play conquest only to find the server being taken up by people dueling…. I’m sure it’s annoying on the other end too.

Give an option to block duel requests from non-party members and you’re set.

Ayestes.1273:

You can practice by joining empty 5v5 rooms together. Once in awhile you get other people in the game with you, but it’s not really that frequent.

This is a hassle. Right click → duel is what the people want.

Stiv.1820:

This isn’t so much a Thief problem as it is a quickness problem. That buff has always been stupid.

Ding ding.

Arheundel.6451:

@Thedenofsin.7340
I run a 20/20/0/0/30 shatter spam build using sword + focus

Another glass cannon mesmer whining that he can’t win against bunkers on his own?
Try to play something else other than glass cannon if you can’t play the build, yours is simply a l2p issue that you don’t want to address and rather prefer to come whining on the forums in the hope whatever you can’t beat..get nerfed, to a more manageable level for you current skills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUtDw8e8kI

QFT.

IDK if ANet really needs to nerf ele’s, or not, but they shouldn’t trouble you much as mes.

They should be very slow to nerf. Ele is the only class I tried that you could basically skill dump and do pretty well, but I don’t know that there’s anything wrong with having some profs that are “easy to learn, difficult to master.”

SAtaarcoeny.8476:

i think you are so wrong. just because ppl run 4 eles doesnt mean that the ele is overpowered but with multiple then it does look op. so now we will nerf it because everyone is QQ ing about it. then ele and ranger will be aweful again. leaving ebgi to rain supreme over pvp for 2 months until that gets nerfed. so every team running 2-3 engis are going to say how awesome there team is.

you say the classes are not balanced yet well if we limit 1 class per team in paids until they are balanced then they can put it back to normal.

also im only saying this for paids leave free how it is.

Arguing about how to tell if a class is OP or not does nothing to support your idea of one prof per team. This is a terrible idea for a myraid of reasons, but mainly I think it is directly counter to ANet’s stated design goals. Good luck with that.

The main reason not to change thief burst is that it does prevent other classes from speccing full glass. Do you really want a bunch of ranged profs free to burst with impunity b/c they have no fear of being instagibbed themselves? Ever tried a shatter or illusion mes in full zerker? Very close to thief burst, but at range. It’s balanced imo.

Nerf thief burst even a bit too much, and there will be a flood of ppl in here complaining how they got dropped before they had a chance to gap close or find the real target.

Has ANet ever given any indication that they would consider removing downed state from pvp? I wouldn’t miss it for a second.

Full glass may not be viable for all professions in all game situations? No wai.

TL;DR?

I’m an old, crotchety and jaded gamer, but being in GASM has made my GW2 experience very enjoyable.

Why settle for the lesser guild experience? There’s a reason we’re called Gasm