Guild Wars 2

Lb pew pew ranger is also good cuz of its offset synergy like greatsword to make it more durable. A rifle thief with initiative mechanic would prbl have to relay more on the rifle for both pew pew and survival, so im guessing u could be even more offensive or cc with it.

On the other hand i wouldnt say no to torch offhand, could open up more combos in xcontent than what rifle could

As a zerk gs hammer warr in wvw (somtimes spvp) i could live with potential passive healing output reduction as long as our damage compensates for less sustain, i.e. more damage and less reliant on “outlasting”.

ThiBash.5634:

Beast Sos.1457:

Poorly written or not u need to grow up. English is my 4th language so maybe that should clarify it for u. ignorant ppl like u need to keep to themselves or learn how to converse with others.

Sorry if not everyone symphatizes with your elitist mindset…

That has nothing to do with elitism, now ur just being soar

Its unfair if vets have to start from scratch, cheap way of adding filler content and buying dev time

A bit offtopic but i really hope they could add a heavy armor head item that covers the jaw area only-plate or metal made, while we get to see our hairstyle

AdaephonDelat.3890:

nacario.9417:

My warrior gs hammer build 00626 will be weakened due to no longer having leg specialist so that ppl can dodge my hammer leap stun, and not being able to trait merciless hammer and burst mastery (only pick one) will reduce hammers utlity as a gap closer and controll, which could also affect gs burst.

Leg specialist is still there. From what I understand your build will become 00666 but yeah the merciless hammer/burst mastery will be an issue for you.

There is little incentive going 6 into tactics when u only need 2 for leg specialist. There are better options in strength which any gs build need. Im worried bout the builds overall sustain, paired with healing signets potential nerf.

My warrior gs hammer build 00626 will be weakened due to no longer having leg specialist so that ppl can dodge my hammer leap stun, and not being able to trait merciless hammer and burst mastery (only pick one) will reduce hammers utlity as a gap closer and controll, which could also affect gs burst.

Im also worried that the healing signet could be overnerfed, i dont get why theyd nerf it in the first place. I wonder whats their idea behind it, i always felt it was a heal not meant to be actively used, which had its unique perk. But now we get this condi immunity that is supposed to make us “want” to use the heal? As others have stated, the other heals have been buffed to bring them on par, as these heals today are not onpar.

Hey folks, I’ve made my first warrior vid! I decided to put some clips together from spvp 1v1 this sat/sun weekend, instead of WvW roaming as theres plenty of such vids around. Im still under a learning curve, but I hope you find it entertaining nonetheless!

Also, Im going to miss my leg specialist trait when the revamp comes :’)

This game is one unit where everything affects the other.

ShadowNinja.1238:

I currently play thief in PvE and sometimes WvW roaming with S/D and I just want to ask if I should reroll to warrior for PvE and WvW after they have revealed the new changes to traits? Is warrior getting MASSIVELY buffed or just staying the same or getting worse, or just a little bit better?

Thanks for any responses, thankyou!

Honestly you are the only one to asnwer this. The answer is both yes and no. Thief is also getting love, as with all classes, and everything that is known will be tweaked. Some people prefer thief playstyle, others warrior. Just cuz a class could get “MASSIVELY” buffed doesnt mean it’s intended to be supreme over others.

Scoobaniec.9561:

Who care about hammer..

This is just a silly reply, everyone should care and not be limited builds wise, thats why devs also did the revamp as they wanted to open up more options, while also wanting to hear if their proposed changes were for the worse. We the warriors are on the same team here. Not having leg specialist as a hammer user is game breaking in pvp, i cannot stress this enough, competent players will dodge your earthshaker and you will be just that close to follow up with hammer rotations since the target will be kiting you around. It may not be that big of a deal if ur other wepset doesnt relay on hammer setting up burst, but often a good chain is ended with hammer 5 into 100b, but goodluck with that when u couldnt even earthshaker cuz no root on hammer 3 from leg specialist. As a melee you wanna stay on target, not slapped around, especially after healing signet reduction.

Theres little incentive going full in tactis with said background, only other workaround would be to kncrease the animation speed on earthshaker, but idk if thats for the better. And having merciless hammer and burst mastery on same grandmaster is also a step back for using hammer as a utility weapon to set up burst and kills as a pure melee user. This is a setback.

Just wanted to add my two cents as a greatsword hammer warrior:

Since we’re stuck with having three full traitlines, and with the way traits were divided in the livestream, it is not really “recommended” as a hammer build user to get Leg specialist (as you would have to go full out in Tactics instead of just the start), which is a must have trait in order to land earthshaker hammer stun-gap closer. The stun-leap is slow and easy to dodge from range, and without being able to user hammer 3# snare to apply root, this will have a significant impact as your target will most likely be out of range for hammer 4# and 5# follow up chains.

Another thing that had a negative impact on QoL hammer build is having the hammer reduction skills trait and burst mastery in the same tier trait, not being able to use both, as it helped with the upkeep of adrenaline and to stay on target.

RNG Luck seemes to be on my side when chosing Arah reward path in Spvp for some reason. Yday I made 15g from selling sigils, from 2 pvp runs ala 30 mins, from exos that dropped from the champ bags, and before that I got an exo longbow skin that sold for 130g. Yes it is RNG, but doing reward tracks in pvp has its chance to. I also take the same weapon types from the reward boxes to throw in mystic forge for prec chance.

GS hammer will only work vs competent players if u take the 20606 into 006202 for leg specialist. Hammer 3# into earthshaker, so that they “cant” dodge it.

For SPvP I changed out GS for LB with hammer, found that better overall than GS.

vengeance.3509:

Got tired of WoW subscription fees and decided to buy this, is it any better?

Welcome! I would say its better simply because WoW follows the same pattern for each expansion, 5 to 10 new lvls, new gear tier, new maps/pvp/raids and so forth. At least in GW2 you have 1 set of gear that is the standard (exo/asc) and once you obtain it you dont have to worry about being lesser because of gear difference WoW has. Also in the structured PvP everyone is on equal footing in terms of gear, as it is seperated from the rest. And as a new player itll be a nice change for you leveling through hearts, and not the traditional quests.

warbignime.4610:

2.No duelling , It is their design choice to not add duelling into the game rather than technical difficulty. I understand where the worry comes from, duelling might encourage unfriendly players to annoy others , but they can always add a auto decline all duel option . I see duelling as a nice way of making friends, I have enough faith in our community to not abuse this feature.

I can relate to the friend aspect of this, as someone who lost all their friends over time where they moved to other games. Being able to duel at a certein location and potentially meet the same people on your server could build friendships.

I know this is early with Anet working on HoT expansion, but maybe Gaile or anyone at Anet could take a look at Wooden Potatoes feature pack 3 suggestions. Some of them have been voiced before while some is new, at least worth having a look at to keep track of viable things people may really want.

I think his point is that many vids, esp where warr showcases 1vx, it is against players with significantly less skills, and once u analyze the vids it becomes so clear. That could lead to others believing the warr to be op, esp for the untrained eye. With vaanss n his skills it would be far mor entertaining to watch 1v1 vs equally skilled

I had in mind to duel u on my warr when u were on ur necro so that u could see it from both sides

Are u EU? We should do some dueling and put ur skills to work!

You have to remember that any voiced MMO out there (like ESO) doesnt have a main character that is speaking full sentences, like we have in GW2 cutscenes and more of in HoT. If the MMO has that (like SWTOR) then the voice is still the same for all male or female of that race. This is because it would cost a lot of money and be resource intensive.

Im all for this feature, but I can see why they havent added it, and even more so when theyve chosen to down prioritize other key important features an MMO should have.

Latinkuro.9615:

why do you people think it has to be either or, this is not binary you know !
we can have both, you can have your back pieces which I’m sick off. and I can have my cape, there; choice is the name of the game. The more choices we have the better.

Stop being so negative.

Now this is quite funny. Read your post again and then remember the post you made in the dueling thread, where you so elegantly stated that the “last thing we need is dueling”, and you couldnt see it from their PoV. And here in this thread you are with your morale Oh the irony!

GS hammer all the way^^ If u were to go with shield as zerk id pair it with axe, not sword (as its kinda DoT).

MrDark.8632:

No.

“Duelers” would just be the same WvW roamer thieves who will ask for a duel on even the slightest disagreement.

The amount of toxicity it would create on the PvE community is not worth it.

And what about the PvE elitists kicking people for the slightest thing in dungeons? It goes both ways. People are at risk when doing anything, but that doesnt mean we should limit ourselves with less content options due to “bad manner”. Thats what you got block for, or just ignore the guy.

Liberis.9573:

Open World dueling could happen. I haven’t given up hope lmao. From one of the BWEs: http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/46820-when-are-they-planning-to-put-in-dueling/#entry1678003

Ive never seen those screens before where Jon Peters says that, thanks! But yeah, well over 2 yrs old :P

Whats interesting tho is that some of these teams are on mixed classes upon joining, and when theres little time left before the match starts, they swap to their engis. Ive faced one of the teams listed in screen here and they did this tactic, so that we werent able to react in time to swap builds/weps (though “we” were pugs).

If I were OP I would invest in ascended weapons as they make a 5 to 8% difference. The ascended gear stat vs exo is very little, 1 to 2%. You could also eventually (as Laurels fills up) get ascended accessory, rings, trinket and back once you finished the weapon. That would make you pretty much on par with any ascedend hero out there.

heartless.6803:

The three 80’s I have are Guardian, Mesmer and thief. I’ve done a lot of WvW and it’s absolutely nothing, not even remotely close, to spvp. I know how my class works but it doesn’t mean I’m good. I have poor reaction time and when you start shoving everything on me at once I start just pressing random buttons. Youtube doesn’t help, guides don’t help. Thats not my problem, my problem isn’t know what I should be doing. It’d actually doing it. I’m not good, remember?, I’m never a person that can or will get to anywhere near decent level of play.

All I’m asking, is can we put in something for pure kittened noobs? Something that automatically restricts over a certain rank? Something that doesn’t have daily progression or rank progression or track progression. That is purely for bad people to play against other bad people.

You’ve touched on some of it, but figure out what is it that make you “bad”. If it is reaction time and feeling uncomfortable then once again practise is your friend. Maybe you can change your keybindings for easier use. In each encounter With a player try and have a goal or two for each time, like set up the most efficient damage rotation or try and see if you can pull those dodges off in time. Despite failure in the end result, being able to pull off those little genius during an encounter will make you grow and feel more comfortable. You could also problably work on Your positioning, dont try and put yourself at easy risk, you can even follow someone around and let them go in first. Maybe also go with a class guild that is a bit tanky so that enemies chose not to go for you first.

Assuming you’re lvl 80 you’ve learned the basics of your class and general combat. Then learn the basics of each class by watching youtube. If your class is to hard/complicated, pick an easier class./build/meta. Then go to the sparring partner NPCs representing each class in the Mists and have at it. Once true genius is achieved, seek redemption in unranked, once again.

Doctor Faustus.6372:

why should a legendary take 100-1000 hours of playing? you are concerned the new legendaries will not be prestige?

just for information: i made 20 (all) legendaries in 5,300h – I didn’t use credit card. Right now you can do all the work for a Legendary by just farming gold all day long. Very boring and very easy.

Very boring indeed but not easy as that is extremely time consuming, the majority of the playerbase would never be able to pull off what you did as an average person with daily chores.

The new system is better imo. If u are low on AP then do the other time gated achis the vets did

sorudo.9054:

or, and this might be a shock to you, get a life, do something useful.
i have plenty of things to do like keeping up my house, work, do shoppings for the week.
if you are really so bored but do want to play GW2 specifically, doesn’t that mean you’re the one to blame, if you stopped rushing everything you would have plenty to do.
even in game, i have all the LS still there to do, 6 other characters to level, completing the PS, doing all jumping puzzles, etc..

oh and btw, dueling is PvP, the LS is made for PvE so no PvP.

But I have a life and do much useful things during my daily chores, as anyone in here do, but thanks for showcasing yourself being a kitten though :-)

There are two sides I can see, it was fun, but at the same time it does stick in my back as this is a “change” that affects my character. It feels altered as if Im not in controll on what I have been working on. Call me crazy but it is what it is. I feel it would’ve been better off if it was just a timed buff that would go away after an hour, instead of having to go through this the whole day.

With 1v1 player dueling being a topic wouldnt it be an interesting idea to test this system with a two week festivites in large arenas like the crown pavillion (aka liadri), where champions would be crowned. Its not like anything special is happening till HoT, we need blood and battle to take away the focus on daily struggle among commoners and street rats. Have the queen herself there or some other famous chars to highlight its importance to hone ones skills in battle for neverending threats!

Im all in for this In fact gw2 would be my only mmorpg if they put this arena in with spectators and laurel. And after the battle im off to ministers waypoint to boast of my victor!

Toxsa.2701:

MashMash.1645:

Well, this would be gear grind, which they said they don’t want to do, right? But if you could upgrade your current Ascended sets, that might be OK maybe? That way you wouldn’t have to restart all over, but you’d be 90% the way there already. I think Ascended is fine though as it is really.

Or even better, let ascended armors be the “precursor” of legendary armors.
You need to go through 3 steps like the new precursor acquisition system, and gradually turn your ascended armors into legendary armors.

This is a good idea actually, if they chose to implement legendary armor

For us who cant get on, whats happening?

haha at least he got his RP lines right

I totally agree with this, though I can also see how it could be less focused on (as with many things where they have to prioritize).

So many strange reasons given by people who dont want dueling, as if the world would end if it was implemented.. Dueling like any other activity have been done before in mmorpgs, devs could take exp from there n past mistakes to tweak it. There are many reasons for it, but sometimes when ur out there leveling or exploring with a friend its good to be able to duel as we progress our chars. If u dont want it then have it on toggle in options or ignore ppl What are people so afraif of, 1v1 isnt balanced, but dueling has proven to be fun in other games, and fun is a factor!

Maybe thats why they took it away, less work that way than having to add collision detection. Sounds like leftover work from beta times that were downprioritized.

I can add that as a gs hammer stance warr i tend to remove endure pain stance for bulls charge vs good eles (with named wep set) as they have the kiting skills intact. As others have stated u need to be super aware when warr has hammer up, if u eat the stuns u also grant him condi removal followed up with burst from greatsword. Use ur utilities to counter his stuns and dont give him that uptime

/signed, can confirm the lag is quite bad when two fronts colide.

I care about duels and hope to see it added to open world I also see players in open world commenting about it and wanting it. And those who often are against it usually tend to be those who arnt focusing on pvp. I wish devs could give some sneak peak as of their standing on this request as it pops up now n then.

I wish they could just redo obsidian sanctum into a pure dueling arena without the possibility to get killed. It was meant for gvg but is it really being used for that? Would be a nice place to hone ur skills n make it so u can duel ur own server. Im just trying to think of the quickest n less resourcedemanding implementation

Ive actually never seen the karmic infusions before, but I have also been living under a rock.. how many items have utlity slots in them? Does 1 infusion really increase karma gain from events by 15%? If so then People must be stacking em like craaazy?

As a Warrior Im on the fence if I should make the legendary hammer or not as most youtube clips Ive seen doesnt showcase how it feels/the weight it has when melee’ing or using Warrior hammer skills. Take the magnetron (or the precursor for hammer) for example, while it’s very simplistic in design, the way the human character holds it and how the head of the hammer has a noticable proportion so that the animation swings look heavy and powerful – also because its very easy to distinct the hammer head. On the other side some hammers make it feel like you hit em with a staff or something. Genesis for instance has a big head and nice glow, but I still feel the head is a bit to low down compared to the shaft, making the hammer look short and less powerful.

If you have the juggernaut or have any say in the matter, feel free to share it.

What I dont understand is why we have to be punished 2 and a half year later after release, and still things arent fixed. Furthermore they want to test more, but what is there to test when the horse is dead? As others have stated, copy working systems (ELO for example) from other games and stop wasting resources and dev time that could’ve been better spent elsewhere, not to mention it kills community and growth. Efficiency, not another deja vu new player experience because it was o-so-wanted!

People like this and that, both ESO and GW2 are good games in different aspects. Gw2 has its niche public events.