Hi guys
Now I have a question for ANet. Why di you make the blue knight heal? Do you think isn’t difficult already to get this done for soem servers? Today I was fighting the Blue Knight and for 2 times she had more than 90% hp and one of the times she was at 30%.
Now explain me how am I suppose to see the mobs that heal hear, in the middle of a zerg of 50 players (optimal case) with all the effects and playing with 10 fps? HOW? Is this suppose to be a event for only those with nice computer that can have 40 fps in huge zergs if not more?
Yeah sure the zerg is big and someone must see them but 1 is not going to kill Idk how many of them and while we have so many effect that can’t see even the players straight I wonder how I can see some mobs. So that you see I don’t even know how they look like because I just can’t see them. Take this Menders OUT!
This week we are already seeing changes to one of the servers. I haven’t goen to WvW yet because the time I have spend this week on the game was mainly in sPvP but the guild mates that I have that do WvW almost everyday say that Vabbi got some new guild there and these week they are winning so far. This can mean that Vabbi might even get more guilds when March 18th comes.
I mean I understand some of the reasons ppl left, the ones I know but the server has changed. I’m neutral about Fenwick because he never did anything that would turn against me, to be honest it’s quite the opposite. Idk how it is now but there where some week where the Mayh with other guilds tryed to do the difficult world bosses, like Tequalt and the Wurm. I don’t think we ever did the Wurm but Tequalt we did. They have also tryed to “revive” the server. In the server population says we are very high but thats just not true, it’s impossible for a server to be very high and still fail in PvE which is what most of the players do, but after all the changes we had not even Tequalt we can do unless we organize it for like a week with all the guild we have. It’s sad and I don’t want this to continue this way.
But this is kinda servers fault to sometimes. I on my own sometimes tryed to organize events like the Marionete and the Knights right now and ppl just don’t care. We say how to do on chat and nobody cares. Marionete that was a easy event if we would get it more than twice a day it was a good day (after first week)
Idk what to say anymore, I will not be here telling that we are great at this and that.. no I will say how we are and ppl will come or not. All i think this server need is actually some new and fresh blood running and pumping this server.
SLAY returning isn’t an option I guess? I have previous guild mates there, and I would love to play with them again.
At this point if we don’t get anyone I will move too. Having some issues with some guild mates more than once now and If I left my current guild I don’t have much reasons to stay on the server. We shall see how it goes…
@ErayzZz bring a whole squad of those, we will need lot
The problem I see now is how are you going to make a Guard look like a Mage. From all Heavy armors I think the most “neutral” and I mean doesn’t look like a plate are the cultural from Sylvari…
To the poeple who left and say it was because of Fenwick, well I think it wasn’t. He isn’t the king of Underworld and you could just ignore him, like you do to any unpleasent player. Ignore the toxic people and the atmosphere would be just fine. But what it’s done doens’t matter now.
Sorry i did this post on the wrong section. I’ll try to make a worth one at the right section
Glad we helped
At the end I think it will come down to this
15/25/0/0/30 for more damage
25/15/0/0/30 for more synergie and options of viable traits to change on the go depending on the situation.
It’s up to you I think both are good options but as I said if I ever try this it will be with 25/15/0/0/30
Yes Sword is in fact one of the best weapons we have for 1 vs 1. Mobility, high damage, blinds, blinds and block if you go with focus (best off-hand we have to go with sword), all that is in this weapon combination. As Christos de Soufre said it sucks for group fights, the AA cahin might hit more than 1 target but the damage won’t be close to what it does for single target.
Do you have any build in mind and it is to just solo roaming or small group roaming? We can help if we know what you have in mind.
25 Radiance is always going to do more damage than 25 Zeal for a scepter/staff buld. It’s not rocket science. Think about it: Symbolic Power ONLY applies to symbols. You ONLY have a symbol on one weapon. In order to take it and still keep 30 Virtues, you can’t have both Symbolic Power and Radiant Power. You can still take Scepter Power. If you do 25 Zeal, you have +10% Scepter damage, and when you’re on Staff you have +10% damage to Symbol of Swiftness.
If you go 25 Radiance you have +10% damage to Scepter, and +10% damage to Focus, and +10% damage to everything on the Staff, not just Symbol of Swiftness. In case you weren’t counting, that’s a lot more damage, and all the time.
Please I know really well what Radiant Power does, but you still have to see in oder to get that trait, another 5 that where spent at 20 Radiance are just a waste since Radiance don’t have good traits, unless as I said you use a Torch or something. And since Shleter is a superior heal skill IMO there will be no signet to trait on, so in order to make those points more useful you will have to go with a bad heal for a squishy character (Signet promotes late use of the heal skill since i heals you so much but sometimes later is just to late, and block from Shelter are really helpful most of the times). I know Radiant Power is really good, I use it on PvP, is one of the best damage modifiers we have but you also have to see that Zeal as more viable main options for traits than Radiance for this type of build. Beside Radiance 6, you don’t have anything that good unless you take 1 or 2 signets.
Also as I said bth options are viable, the damage difference won’t be that big (, it’s up to personal taste
Now it’s a dungeon build. Signets are terrible, don’t use them. You’re missing out on some great (and frankly, much more mage-like utilities) by doing so. If you’re purely ranged you really don’t need Honor 5, since you’re not going to be in the thick of it anyway. Better to put the last points in Virtues to give you either ranged Consecrations (to fit with your ranged magey theme) or something else useful like Shielded Mind or Unscathed Contender.
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Never saw something like this but this got me curious
Although I think its a waste going 30 in Radiance and get all Signet traits with only one signet. Why not smething like this:
The support incrises. Damage might be a bit less but not much, lost Radiant Power but gained Scepter Power and Symbolic Power, also this build will give more vunerability each is much better for the group. Also since most ime you will be at close 600 range, the risk for getting hit is less and so Scholar will be much better than Ruby Orbs and Ruby Orbs should be only an option till you are able to get Scholar.
I might even try this out my self, I’m curious of what this can be capable of.
Leaving the signet traits is a waste, I was just forgetful and didn’t actually look at what Radiance traits were selected. Thanks for pointing that out.
Symbolic Power is totally useless though unless you have either two symbol weapons (i.e. staff and mace) or a Hammer. Even then it’s not great. At that point I would run 20/20/0/0/30 with Blind Exposure and Signet Mastery for the better recharge on the heal.
Edit: Actually, you know what, I’d still always go 10/30 or 15/25 minimum because of Radiant Power. Radiant Power is way better than Scepter Power, especially with Right Hand Strength.
But Radiance Trait line has really low quality main trait for what he wants. Also Signet heal is not that great with this build because he is to squishy Shelter is shorter CD and blocks which saved my live many times. He can stay in range but how about when he stacks? To stay in Radiance I think he would be better with a Torch rather than a Focus and that way go with the Torch trait which is better than the rest of the main traits.
But that up to him to dicide, both ways work quite well IMO (Symbolic Power would work here because for staff the Symbol would be one of the main ways to do damage)
If I were him I would go 25/15/0/0/30 Staff/ScepterFocus or as you said 15/25/0/0/30 and go with Staff/ScepterTorch or Focus.
Personally I never though of the Guardian for a Mage style, but it might work. Personally I have gone with the Guard because I love Sword and GS and since at the time I like more the GS skills of Guard than with the one of Warrior (I have one at 80 now but I don’t feel like doing everything again to stay good on him so I will problably just farm CoF with him as soon as I equip it properly)
Hey guys
As I heard about the news of free transfer between 18th and 27th of March, I though of 2 options for my server Underworld. Eitheir this help us getting back where we were long time ago, or this leaves as we are since 25th to 27th rank the kitten is basicly the same.
So I would like to know if there is any guilds/players interested in coming for this server, either first time or to come back.
Personally I would love to see the server that I choose to play grow in the WvW. Right now there are only 2/3 servers we can win and WvW weeks have been this 2 ways: Either we win with great advantage or we lose with great disadvantage, and I’m tired of that. I want even and tought fights, I don’t like being massacred and I don’t like free wins.
Please is there someone interested on getting Underworld back to where he was? To the golden days?
You can go to the cultural armor NPC and click in preview, that way you’ll see it by yourself and even better, in your toon. You can also preview dyes from TP at the same time, to check if it will fit.
There or g to the PvP lobby and see how it goes with some of the game Staffs
T3 I don’t know, I know T2 as one (in combat there is a shade on the back that bugs me so much that I was foced to get rid of that armor) and T1 don’t have any as far as I can tell and till I have gold for t3 thats what I’ve been using.
:/ Sadly that plus the fact that in WvW aside from roaming (and i find it boring and unrewarding) we’re very sub-par, I’ve pretty much stopped playing. Rarely log on to flip things on TP…
On top of that, the addition of ascended gear… and the general living world that dies every 2 weeks (or even less if people rush)…. (lol the poll results in my signature reached 1k votes…)
O well… “Prepare for TitanFall in 5 days” … long kitten timer…
Now it’s a dungeon build. Signets are terrible, don’t use them. You’re missing out on some great (and frankly, much more mage-like utilities) by doing so. If you’re purely ranged you really don’t need Honor 5, since you’re not going to be in the thick of it anyway. Better to put the last points in Virtues to give you either ranged Consecrations (to fit with your ranged magey theme) or something else useful like Shielded Mind or Unscathed Contender.
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Never saw something like this but this got me curious
Although I think its a waste going 30 in Radiance and get all Signet traits with only one signet. Why not smething like this:
The support incrises. Damage might be a bit less but not much, lost Radiant Power but gained Scepter Power and Symbolic Power, also this build will give more vunerability each is much better for the group. Also since most ime you will be at close 600 range, the risk for getting hit is less and so Scholar will be much better than Ruby Orbs and Ruby Orbs should be only an option till you are able to get Scholar.
I might even try this out my self, I’m curious of what this can be capable of.
My question is, do you think it’s worth it? It’s woth getting rid of all Healing Power to get more crit chance and a bit more armor? Because the first one I have enough crit for vigor but not quite enough for Empowering Might to be more efective (since it’s only 1 sec coldown) but My dodges heal more, giving boon heal more (small difference, almost unoticed) … you get the point, but the second I will crit more and will do more damage. I have the first setup but I’m not sure if it is really worth the change or not (I’m not a very rich player and so to make a big change like that it has to be worth the gold, I will have to craft (to help get Armorsmith to 500) new armor and craft a new weapon and that lot of gold.
Well again, I gotta say, I loved the end. Was predictable as about the Dragon, I mean, if we wouldn’t get a Dragon next I would rage quit this. But now we know All this was for and problably who was inside Scarlets head. I mean I can’t be the only one thinking that Mordremoth was th voice inside her and made her doing this, so he could wake up.
And if I’m right this also means that the only race that was safe from the corruption of the Dragon isn’t anymore, if whta I think happened is correct, Mordremoth corrupted Scarlet and made her doing all this. Sylvaris can be corrupted by Mordremoth (kinda makes sence, jungle dragon behing able to corrupt “jungle” race)
I curious about the next patch to get some final answers, till then, finish Archivements and PvP till march 18th
I don’t get the dissapointment. Now we know that most likely the voice inside her head was an Elder Dragon. He wanted to awake but maybe didn’t had the means to do it, so lets corrupt someone to do it for you. Just like Zhaytan. And If I’m correct we now know that there is 1 Dragon capable of corrupting Sylvaris.
I liked the end, Battle wise could be better, I mean I would have liked to fight 1vs 1 with Scarlet but still better than the Personal Story final Battle.
And the Cutscenes, the bests so far. Next Personal stories need to be done this way
Sorry, but this is a bad bunker build and a bad dps build combined. If you want a DPS build, go with a meditation build like Itty Bitty Bunker’s build. If you want a bunker build, go with something like this.
Also, the signet heal is a weak choice compared to shelter since it just opens you to getting interrupted.
Other than that, Rune of speed and sustain are really important, and altruistic healing doesn’t do a great job in spvp.
(BTW I LOVE 30 radiance points in med builds)
Why are Runes of Speed that important? I don’t see many if any characters running 25% faster in most games, why sacrifice damage over that? Not even Thief or Warrior Run that as far as I see it
Thieves and warriors don’t need it because they have a plethora of movement based skills that allow them to move around the map fast. Also they have traits that allow them to get higher movement speeds, guards don’t. If you’re a roamer you need to be moving fast. They also help with two weaknesses guard has. Vitality and keeping on target since Guards lack soft CCs. I personally always use speed runes when I play my dps guard. They’re not mandatory, however they do help significantly.
Well I spend most of the time in combat mode, most times when I move from 1 to another point I don’t even get out of it or if I do it as the end, and in combatmode every class as the same speed unless it has swiftness. Personally I don’t think it conpensates the damage loss. S/F and GS gives you plenty of mobility already and every damage spec runs JI or should so, movement Imo shouldn’t be a problem
No, the 25% movement speed applies to combat too. It’s especially helpful for sticking to your target to land auto attacks. You only have so many gap closers so if something else can help keep you close you’ll be in better position when you do need it.
Though, if you’ve never noticed the advantages of moving faster than your opponent there’s not much I can say here.
I’d also like to add on not everyone runs gs and s/x. GS is arguably one of the worst weapons for pvp for a number of reasons.
Not that the GS is bad, is just the most used weapons for damage Guard, ppl learn their moves and predict. I think is the best weapons for Necro MM or Spirit Ranger since the AoE Damage is bigger than any of our weapons, and that way I can clean the minions/spirit. Hammer is good too but the 3rd attack in the AA chain is too slow, but the #5 skills is great. the #3 and #4 are worts than in GS, very easy to evade (I can’t lad them most times, unless I’m on a team fight, 1 vs 1 can only land if the opponent is bad., but that #2 hits like a boss, love that move.
And no, I will not switch for Speed runes when I don’t have a problem keeping up with my opponent, that would be stupid and as I already said. Most ppl don’t even have 25% speed up in sPvP and I have lot of gap closers. Runes of Speed in the stats I have right now are useless. Now if Rune of Traveler ever get to sPvP thats another thing, those are one of the best Runes in the game
Sorry, but this is a bad bunker build and a bad dps build combined. If you want a DPS build, go with a meditation build like Itty Bitty Bunker’s build. If you want a bunker build, go with something like this.
Also, the signet heal is a weak choice compared to shelter since it just opens you to getting interrupted.
Other than that, Rune of speed and sustain are really important, and altruistic healing doesn’t do a great job in spvp.
(BTW I LOVE 30 radiance points in med builds)
Why are Runes of Speed that important? I don’t see many if any characters running 25% faster in most games, why sacrifice damage over that? Not even Thief or Warrior Run that as far as I see it
Thieves and warriors don’t need it because they have a plethora of movement based skills that allow them to move around the map fast. Also they have traits that allow them to get higher movement speeds, guards don’t. If you’re a roamer you need to be moving fast. They also help with two weaknesses guard has. Vitality and keeping on target since Guards lack soft CCs. I personally always use speed runes when I play my dps guard. They’re not mandatory, however they do help significantly.
Well I spend most of the time in combat mode, most times when I move from 1 to another point I don’t even get out of it or if I do it as the end, and in combatmode every class as the same speed unless it has swiftness. Personally I don’t think it conpensates the damage loss. S/F and GS gives you plenty of mobility already and every damage spec runs JI or should so, movement Imo shouldn’t be a problem
Sorry, but this is a bad bunker build and a bad dps build combined. If you want a DPS build, go with a meditation build like Itty Bitty Bunker’s build. If you want a bunker build, go with something like this.
Also, the signet heal is a weak choice compared to shelter since it just opens you to getting interrupted.
Other than that, Rune of speed and sustain are really important, and altruistic healing doesn’t do a great job in spvp.
(BTW I LOVE 30 radiance points in med builds)
Why are Runes of Speed that important? I don’t see many if any characters running 25% faster in most games, why sacrifice damage over that? Not even Thief or Warrior Run that as far as I see it
How about just using GS instead of one of those 2 weapons? The Meta runs 25 in Radiance and uses GS, so I don’t see the point of the question. Just take 5 points out of Radiance if you want to use GS and put them in something more general for both weapon sets (Honor or Virtues first minor traits are really good. Virtues one is almost a must)
Now you use meditations for PvE!? I mean I like meditations but I only use them in PvP where they shine, in PvE are more useless than AH. If you really want to maintain the trait lines I would suggest to go AH with Shouts and one concecration, at least is a bit more supportive than that.
Like what is up with this? I can say from what I’ve played these 2 are the most hated maps for tournements and yet, whenever I go to SoloQ these are the most frequent, everyday I go SoloQ is this, and since I can’t allways have a team (because I’m still not confident enough on my skills for TeamQ and we all know TeamQ is more serious than SoloQ) to play with, this situations gets annoying. The maps aren’t that great for tourneys to begin with and havin them poping up everytime I want to SoloQ makes me and others hateing them even more.
When I get in this ppl allways complain on map chat, allways.
How am I suppouse to get more confident of my skills when I can’t train strait?
Did you guys got the idea right here? This is a troll topic, the OP doesn’t even came here anymore after opening this. Also this is in a PvE envirement, builds are different from PvE to WvW to sPvP, so for all you thinking that he actually cares about this (the OP), who cares wich does more damage at PvE? Finishing a dgn faster? Thats what is it OP about this, finishing a dgn faster 1 or 2 mins. LOL
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A Guardian does 56k WW, not OP. Warriors do half of that damage of HB when they aren’t optimized (25 stacks of bloodlust, might and vulnerability) for it and this is OP.
You trolls need to get a bit more creative
Like this comunity is these foruns is getting worse and worse everyday I come here
I would suggest Yishis lastest video of him WvW Roaming. There is a duel of him with a D/P Thief and he explains how to deal with them while the fight is going.
Hey guys
After quitting my Thief for my Guardian I did quite the mistake of salvaging armor and weapons to sell the runes and equip my Guardian better. Now I miss my Thief and got bored of Guardian. I have Commander there but rarely command, I have 3 Ascended Weapons and I don’t have any motivation to do more. So I’m thinking in going back to Thief. I have allways enjoyed it since I started it. I enjoyed so much that When I started it I got more stuff done on him in 100 hours than the rest of my characters in triple of the time.
Now I’ve allways been fan of I Am Mugi and Yishis videos, they are really good Thief and I just hope to be able to be that good one day. I wanted you to judge my build. It’s based from those 2 Youtubers build.
Only me? or am I the only one that think the guardian moves like turtles.. we could also need some Signet for movement, would be perfect!
Thank you!
Mesmers are slower than us. but yeah excluding us and Mesmer every class as an 25% permanent movement increase or can have perma swiftness (Warriors and Engineers)
I like this changes, finally can go damage in PvP without being mocked for it. Although it looks like there will be another UI build for sPvP and I don’t like those (Minion Master Necro, Spirit Ranger and now Spirit weapons Guardian). Never used torch, maybe that will change now.
Empowering Might is good change. Idk why they will put it back has it was. Warriors have a similar one and never had coldown (I know it’s only on GS, but hten again do they use anything else for PvE), but I was already satisfied with the trait as it is now.
I like the idea. As it is, the meta has warriors almost never using their burst anyway due to traited +15% damage at full adrenaline. New bursts would be a nice way to incentivize players to use the burst. Burst skills should be like signets. A passive bonus for adrenaline shouldn’t always be the better choice activating it.
Take that trait out and Warriors will use their Burst skills
I would pay more than I do to a NPC is ANet did a item to retrait on the go in-game, not on the gem store. For like 10 silver each. I would buy toons of those and have them with me. Now having to go to a trait Trainer everytime when most of them aren’t even that close to a WP (the LA ones were but I never liked LA that much, too much lag)
looks like i’m being limited (hear that, anet? your game is limiting me) to 0/x/30/30/x or similar if i like to play pve and wvw. so much for build diversity. so sadness, much fail.. cries quietly in corner
Personally I don’t think you should run Valor for either. Radiance, Honor, and Virtues are where it’s at – for both of them. Lord knows I never run Valor unless I’m doing a meds build for some reason.
If I don’t feel like swapping traits, I run 15/0/0/30/25 Hammer for PvE and WvW. Sometimes I do 10/0/0/30/30 instead in order to get access to the Stability on Courage trait whose name I forget to land stomps in WvW and then switch to Permeating Wrath for PvE because it’s baller with Hammer.
That doesn’t sound bad at all, I might even try it. But Valor in WvW is a must for a defencive/support play. Full support any x/x/x/30/30 would do.
I’ll maintain my AH, love it or hate it I don’t care it works great for me, it was exactly what I wanted and thats why I mained Guardian and not Warrior (I also didn’t like the GS skills on Warrior as much as I like them on Guard).
I would say a class is OP when it can get 3 of the main stats over 2k points … in sPvP, without signets (yes the bunker build I tryed had 2k+ Power, 2k+ Toughness and 2k+ Vitality, I ran with Mace + Shield and Hammer and guess who ppl coulnd’t kill? Me)
These stats with you actual regen and condi cleanse, not to mention the amount of knockback and stuns you can have while doing fine damage … Idk but I would say you are kinda OP, but thats just me.
Also going to WvW underlvl (at 40+) and getting over 10k Hundred Blades on Champs when I’m not stacked. Not OP at all.
Don’t fool yourselfs. Scarlet is just a tool to distratct us form the real killer behind the attack to LA. IT WAS THE QUAGGANS!!
They lost their home land to the dragons and now want to take LA and so they Brainwashed Scarlet when she was born. All she has been through was because of these psicho little creatures that have been fooling us all with their cuteness. You will see … Quaggans are the real killer!
Also (spoiler alert!!) E is juts a Quaggan that had gone rogue and decided to help us in hope we could stop the Quaggans but he was captured and you will release him next patch when you go to invade the supposed Scarlet UVO (that really is a mechanist to drill a hole to a bay where the rest of the Quaggans are and finish LA once and for all. since they could bring the whole army it would be suspicous).
I have the exact same dilema. Because of this I just run the classin AH for WvW (I don’t do Roaming right now) and PvE. 0/0/30/30/10 for PvE full Zerker with 2 shouts and 1 concecration (usually Wall or PF) or if need just run with 1 shout (Save Yourselfs or Stand Your Ground for stun break). I know I’m not optimal for PvE since I’ve tryed the meta too but I manage to do pretty well still. Although the PvE I do is not much of a challenge (CoF mainly and some other dgns, rarely Fractals but for those I change for the Hammer Meta). That build with full Zerker, Runes of Scholar, Sigils of Force and Night and I still manage to do 10k WW every once in a while.
PvP is not a problem since there wwe have diffent build. I would love they would do the same system for WvW even only with the Traits, that would be enough, so that way I could run different builds without having to go switch every single time I want to do WvW or PvE (it takes little time I know, but I also have little time to play so not spending any going to an NPC and Trait everything again would be nice).
When I tryed the Meta I was thinking in about leaving WvW for good and just focus on PvE and tPvP but then I would feel like 100g spend for trash since Commander tag in PvE is kinda of useless, except for those really though event like Tequalt and the Wurm, which I don’t do
Healway just has sustain, and while it is a lot of sustain, its not enough
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQRArd8elUgSDHHyNEf4Eh1DAeQ/VVIeXPgYEbIA-jUCBYfDim+IwEIRM1UQM3UZtYqIas6aYKXAqYLqWGA9xA-w
This build offers all of that. Change the food to omnom berry ghosts and youve got extremely high sustain, really great dmg, tons of blinds, blocks, and dodges for defense, and soft CC through hydromancy sigils for chasing/sticking on people, and teleports with sword and JI to either get away or chase.
(Dont use hydromancy/energy until the March 18th patch. 2 on swap sigils are bugged in that one will put the other on CD, without getting the benefit of the second. Just use energy/accuracy for now. Should give you plenty of time to get the gear anyway)
Thansk for the advice, and I don’t want to be rude, but thats far from what I’ve asked. I asked if Healway is still viable. Believe me when I played with it I encounter very few ppl that I couldn’t take down (really tanky Warrior were a problem, they did nice damage while aving good regen but I had moe regen than them so they also couldn’t take me down). Sure it last a bit more than a damage build to take out ppl but it did well.
I see I have to try it on my own, I ask for advice about 1 build and you guys show me another totally different
Hey guys
I kinda miss WvW roaming and so I thought in getting back to it. I don’t have lot of guilfmates that roam so I do solo pretty much all times. I’ve tryed more burst build before but the one I did better was with Healway. Thing is with all he updates since I last used this build Idk if it is still viable and also Mobility has become one of the most important thing in WvW roaming. Zerg you get perma swiftness but Roaming with Healway is really slow. So I want to ask if Healway with Traveler Runes is acceptable.
I got this right now (except for Runes):
Any ideas? What worries me about Traveler is that I lost condi removal since before I had use Runes of the Soldier to help with that. With Traveler feels like going back to the orginal boon duration Healway but with only 45% instead of 60 and with Movement speed
I’m assuming this is for PVP cause all the builds I’ve seen put up so far are crap for PVE. Putting points into toughness tree for PVE is an utter waste and you might as well just 4 man dungeons without that guard cause he is contributing next to nothing. Better off with a nice dps hammer build with perma protection. Something like a 15/15/0/20/20 or of you are comfortable with purging flames, just run a 25/15/0/20/10. Both of those builds will give you great dps, perma group protection and enough condi cleanse for most stuff in PVE of course.
How many words into the OP did you read?
I read the whole thing. The part I wasn’t clear on was the “skill group” part. If he meant dungeon runs since I don’t really understand what a skill group would be in PVP unless he’s talking team PVP. Regardless, like I said in the first sentence of my post, I’m assuming he means purely from a 100% PVP standpoint since like I said, any of these builds listed are pretty crappy for PVE.
Are you blind? He said WvW and you bring the crappy PvE Meta. Go with that to WvW and lets see how well you will do it
I would say for WvW there isn’t really a meta, is up to personal preference. I often play in Zerg and sometimes I command too (very little yet, Idk about the future) so I run the classic AH 0/0/30/30/10, but sometimes I take out 5 in Virtues and use it in Radiance, it depends. I run with cleric armor and weapons and soldiers Trinkets, with Knight Amulet and 1 ring.
If you’re dying with a GS meta build, run a hammer meta build.
AH is a subpar option either way, it’s just a crappy regen. It’s like having the warrior’s healing signet except it’s only active when you have a symbol down and everyone is standing in it.
It may be crap buuild but it is my build. What I work best with. Even if I do more damage with the meta, I die much more and believe me with pugs if you die to much and in key parts of the dgn you will be kicked no matter the build you are running. Also for personal experience the meta is not worth it with pugs, at least the dgns I do. I don’t do all I mainly focus on CoF and AC and at least in CoF there is only 1 part in both path 1 and 2 where ppl sometimes stack, and sometimes is very rare, so there goes my support with Concecrations down the drain. Also AH shouts 2 Shouts is more than enough so I can still run 1 Concecration all the time, 2 if needed since the most important shout is Stand Your Ground. I really don’t care what you say anymore, bash AH say whatever you want about AH, the truth is, while being sub-optimal, is still viable for PvE, but ONLY casual PvE, like what I do.
I also didn’t did my Guard to be Squishy as paper so Meta is defenitly not my style.
I gotta say, I can’t use the meta, I can’t get used to it. kitten I recognize that is good, the best PvE build that I’ve used in Guardian, but the PvE I do is not enough to use it well. The only bosses I know pretty well are the CoF and AC ones and even in those I miss most blinds and block at the important moves.
The meta is the best, way better than any AH build, but I think is too much of an elite build in PvE, and so the meta IMO is not worth taken if I don’t focus on PvE. Now to any Guard focused on PvE only, meta all the way, you shouldn’t even consider other build than that but for those who aren’t I don’t see how it is useful since I’m not focus 100% on PvE and so I will not take the time and the atention needed to get pro in PvE. This is why I’ll problably not go further than lvl 30 at fractals, but if I do as I only do them once in a while I will switch for the meta there, since highler lvl players problably also use their metas for that.
So to anyone who hate AH. Keep hating. That will not make the AH user change their builds just like to those who hate meta will not make the meta users change theirs.
You want a build that requires skill ? You probably just have to reroll to engi or something else. Replacing hammer with a greatsword dosent make this build more skillful than hambow . My advice would be dont use greatsword in tPvP , people expect you to run hambow or condi warr.
The only place where GS works is WvW roaming since you dont have to
support your team you can use a single target based build.
As far as the build goes 0\20\20\0\30 works with any power based build .
In the future, just ignore this guy. He has it out for Warrior and will basically only ever say negative things about it. I do enjoy GS+LB but I would suggest using it only if your team is lacking on the damage side of things. What’s also fun about the build is that there’s a lot of variation in what you can do.
You can also do a lot of mixes with what you put in one of your skill slots because I like Bull’s Charge to insure that I always stay close with GS but in option 3 you’re really glass and don’t have Cleansing Ire so that extra cleanse is good. I’ve also been messing around with Sigil of Hydromancy on the GS so that if they stun break after a Bull’s or cleanse the immob on Pin Down they’ll still eat a few more hits. It’s just all going to depend on your team.
What I enjoy about the playstyle is how mobile and fluid it feels.
Would also be viable to switch Berserker Power for Defy Stance? I feel like tha will be better to get used to the GS then switch to Berserker Power
You want a build that requires skill ? You probably just have to reroll to engi or something else. Replacing hammer with a greatsword dosent make this build more skillful than hambow . My advice would be dont use greatsword in tPvP , people expect you to run hambow or condi warr.
The only place where GS works is WvW roaming since you dont have to
support your team you can use a single target based build.
As far as the build goes 0\20\20\0\30 works with any power based build .
So, I’m screwd? I mean Medi DPS Guard is what I like but if I play Guardian ppl alwasy expect me to be a Bunker. if I play Warrior ppl expect for me to be Hambow or Condi? Well ANet better give us a new PvP mode because this sucks
Hey all fine builds posted. But i will say i think hammer is too slow and will lack dps. In return making you pop your skills faster leaving you defenceless. Imo medi build are more for dps guardians using sword/focus(for bursting) and GS(for point defence untill burst is ready again) i run this a lot and it serves me very well. http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAR8dnQElGadIuhAIaCJnxKlg2HAorHQUE1QA-ToAg0EHpOydk5I5R2nGQsKYbB
Mesmer’s are a pain also some warriors can leave you mad. but in most cases you can control the fight. litanty of wrath is risky i normally use it after my open burst when i swap to GS if i am taking dmg. So swap to GS use GS 5 then LOW GS 4 GS5 GS 2 then smite if i have a condi on me. Mercy runes because team res ftw. Indomitable courage for stomping count 1-2 then hit f3 when stomping. Untill you learn guardian better use RF over tome. but tome is great for group fights.
If you really like hammer i would look at a hammer/staff ground target consecration build, again with mercy runes or lyssa runes are also good if you use RF.
You are a DPS character, DON’T RESS, only if it’s like 2vs1 and you got a bit late and still depens on the situation, but in a group fight you ressing is just a free kill. Also any of the book in PvP are useless, easily interrupted and long cast time. I think this is better.
Hey guys
Can you help me finding a good tPvP build that uses GS? I know GS isn’t the best weapon and thats one of the reasons I want to use it TO show people that they can be wrong. Now I don’t play much Warrior yet, but I will problably main it after the season one of the Living story ends (I did all with my Guard and I will feel bad if I don’t finish with it) so this is why I’m asking. Now I don’t want a faceroll build like Hambow, those guys I hate. that build doesn’t require skill whatsoever and still does great. I’ve searched a bit in IntoTheMist and found this one:
Nobody is asking you to play the meta; however, your comments result in being misleading for new players and a waste of time for experienced players. You are really arguing against facts which have been proven in many ways (as much as a game without addons allow).
e.g. I also had problems in playing Scholar runes, but that was not due to the fact that the runes were not the optimal choice for PvE DPS
For the 100th time one of my guardians IS playing the meta build. Do you people even bother to read or do you just jump at anything that questions the sacred “meta” build which you all mindlessly worship? It’s like I’m trying to reason with a bunch of rabid Bieber fangirls.
I understood that you weren’t playing Scholar runes, hence not playing the meta.
Anyway, I tried to be constructive, but it really seems you just want to feed the argument for the sake of it. For this reason, I am out.
Scholar runes only work if you are in a well coordinated team where you can maintain your hp. Otherwise for dps purposes even ruby orbs are better.
You see the difference between you and I is that while I saw this discrepancy in practice and adjusted for it you mindlessly copycat, follow, and defend it.
Since this comment was totally uncalled for, I will just add that you do not know how I got to play the meta build. Your “seeing the discrepancy and adapting to it” seems more an excuse than anything else.
So, just to be clear, it seems to me that the difference between you and I is that I learned to play the optimal meta build, You did not.
Peace.
Nope, you’re just mindlessly copycatting a rune setup that works well only in well coordinated chat enabled teams and mistakenly thinking it will work better in all situations.
Conversely as I’ve stated I realized this limitation and made adjustments so that it will work well in all situations including pugs and other disorganized teams. So the difference between you and I is that I actually learned to play while you learned to copy.
Class dismissed.
I actually pug and gear check and have perfect runs with people in full scholar/zerk running the correct builds without voice com pretty regularly. I have no idea what you get these assumptions.
Being able succeed in a run while having scholar runes doesn’t mean you’ve actually managed to take advantage of the 6 pc 10% damage bonus enough to make it worth having over for example ruby orbs if dps is what you are after.
Fact is pugs are terrible sometimes, and maintaining 90%+ hp in a bad pug in high lvl fractals is near impossible.
I can’t find the math, but it works out to do more dps if you have 24% uptime on over 90% health. I’d appreciate if someone could link to it. Is it so unreasonable to be able to keep your health over 90% for 1/4 of the fight?
These little 10% multipliers really add up. If it’s just one or two you may not see much of a difference, but if you max them out you will see a huge difference. On the meta, there is a potential of 60% in multipliers. (Fiery Wrath, Powerful Blades, Radiant Power, Power of the Virtuous, Superior Runes of the Scholar, Superior Sigil of Force and Superior Sigil of the Night)
In context, that means if you you hit for 3000 on an attack for example with no multipliers, you would be dealing 4800 with them. If each party member had 40% it’s like bringing 2 extra people into the dungeon.
Running AH requires you to drop either support or multipliers. Tradeoff with dps for survivability. However, it’s generally unnecessary on most dungeons unless you or your party is unfamiliar with the content.
Your forgot Zealous Blade so it’s 65 and will be 75 after the crit damage changes since 2 handed weapons will be able to have 2 Sigils so GS will have Sigil of Force and Night
I used Powerful Blades for the one handed sword which is a 10% damage bonus over Zealous Blade that’s only a 5% bonus. So it would be down to 55% with Zealous Blade, seeing as I already worked the two sigils in there wouldn’t be another increase.
Nobody is asking you to play the meta; however, your comments result in being misleading for new players and a waste of time for experienced players. You are really arguing against facts which have been proven in many ways (as much as a game without addons allow).
e.g. I also had problems in playing Scholar runes, but that was not due to the fact that the runes were not the optimal choice for PvE DPS
For the 100th time one of my guardians IS playing the meta build. Do you people even bother to read or do you just jump at anything that questions the sacred “meta” build which you all mindlessly worship? It’s like I’m trying to reason with a bunch of rabid Bieber fangirls.
I understood that you weren’t playing Scholar runes, hence not playing the meta.
Anyway, I tried to be constructive, but it really seems you just want to feed the argument for the sake of it. For this reason, I am out.
Scholar runes only work if you are in a well coordinated team where you can maintain your hp. Otherwise for dps purposes even ruby orbs are better.
You see the difference between you and I is that while I saw this discrepancy in practice and adjusted for it you mindlessly copycat, follow, and defend it.
Since this comment was totally uncalled for, I will just add that you do not know how I got to play the meta build. Your “seeing the discrepancy and adapting to it” seems more an excuse than anything else.
So, just to be clear, it seems to me that the difference between you and I is that I learned to play the optimal meta build, You did not.
Peace.
Nope, you’re just mindlessly copycatting a rune setup that works well only in well coordinated chat enabled teams and mistakenly thinking it will work better in all situations.
Conversely as I’ve stated I realized this limitation and made adjustments so that it will work well in all situations including pugs and other disorganized teams. So the difference between you and I is that I actually learned to play while you learned to copy.
Class dismissed.
I actually pug and gear check and have perfect runs with people in full scholar/zerk running the correct builds without voice com pretty regularly. I have no idea what you get these assumptions.
Being able succeed in a run while having scholar runes doesn’t mean you’ve actually managed to take advantage of the 6 pc 10% damage bonus enough to make it worth having over for example ruby orbs if dps is what you are after.
Fact is pugs are terrible sometimes, and maintaining 90%+ hp in a bad pug in high lvl fractals is near impossible.
I can’t find the math, but it works out to do more dps if you have 24% uptime on over 90% health. I’d appreciate if someone could link to it. Is it so unreasonable to be able to keep your health over 90% for 1/4 of the fight?
These little 10% multipliers really add up. If it’s just one or two you may not see much of a difference, but if you max them out you will see a huge difference. On the meta, there is a potential of 60% in multipliers. (Fiery Wrath, Powerful Blades, Radiant Power, Power of the Virtuous, Superior Runes of the Scholar, Superior Sigil of Force and Superior Sigil of the Night)
In context, that means if you you hit for 3000 on an attack for example with no multipliers, you would be dealing 4800 with them. If each party member had 40% it’s like bringing 2 extra people into the dungeon.
Running AH requires you to drop either support or multipliers. Tradeoff with dps for survivability. However, it’s generally unnecessary on most dungeons unless you or your party is unfamiliar with the content.
Your forgot Zealous Blade so it’s 65 and will be 75 after the crit damage changes since 2 handed weapons will be able to have 2 Sigils so GS will have Sigil of Force and Night
Don’t use Signet heal in PvP and I mean any kind, easyly interrupted. Damage modifiers are important for roaming and even more now since Crit damage will be nerfed. Focus is far more superior than Shield. Personally I prefer GS for Mobility but is Hammer fits your style is also and really good option
Anyway, running the knights will give you more dps, group support, and practice running an optimal build than AH. AH isn’t absolutely awful for gs + sword/focus builds since you have points to spare for MoC and blind/vuln spam still with 0/15/30/0/10 and points to spare. It just isn’t optimal in any way and no point in runningit. For hammer though it isn’t viable since you lose too much.
Question, why would knights give you more dps? If dps is what you want why not just go full zerk?
20/25/0/0/25 with knights armor would give more dps and group support than ah zerk.
Hmm that seems like an over-exaggeration but none the less it’s not what I asked.
I asked why are you using knights in YOUR build when you could simply use all zerk.
I use full zerk myself and encourage people to do the same. I labeled that as main set. I labeled the knight set as a starter set, back up (if pugs are failing hard and your struggling with the full zerk on), or for the few tactics I listed for fractals. I realize that not everyone will be capable of running this at their current level of play so I put knights in there as an option for new/struggling players. It’s a good option for those people until they make their way to full zerk.
I still think for starters Soldier are better than Knights. Keeps the same power, gain power toughness tha zerker and vit. precision is important for crit but none of the starts used needs crit for activation
But to sit there and proudly state you are running a bad build is just hilarious.
No you don’t!? Lol if one dude says he likes to run AH all you do is bash the guys with sarcasm and throwing meta build at his face. As far as I know the game haven’t got to the point of “if you want to do a dgn you must shows us your build” yet, and for me experience no one that I’ve seen was kicked from parties for his build, but yes for not knowing the dgn wich is far more important than the build of the Guard in the party or of the warrior or of the ranger or of whatever.
No. Meta is simply better. In the first couple pages here you can see the arguments offered in support of this, and you can see people clinging to straws and ignoring reality. If you find that threatening and ‘bashing’ to you when someone offers rational arguments then I suggest you abstain from commenting as it’s clearly upsetting to you.
Oh yes I can see those people ignoring reality, but from both sides because there are also ppl satting why they like AH and using arguments showing why is still viable and also admiting that it’s not the optimal spec (most of them admited that they also run the meta) but that didn’t changed anything you keepts shouting “Meta and only meta is viable”. Heck I think most of you don’t even know what viable means since only the meta is viable and there are other builds without behing Ah or Meta also viable
But to sit there and proudly state you are running a bad build is just hilarious.
No you don’t!? Lol if one dude says he likes to run AH all you do is bash the guys with sarcasm and throwing meta build at his face. As far as I know the game haven’t got to the point of “if you want to do a dgn you must shows us your build” yet, and for me experience no one that I’ve seen was kicked from parties for his build, but yes for not knowing the dgn wich is far more important than the build of the Guard in the party or of the warrior or of the ranger or of whatever.
