Guild Wars 2

xbutcherx.3861:

nicknamenick.2437:

Why use longbow if it doesnt have the guaranteed CI proc?

Thats the reason most warrior use longbow.. else everyone will use hammer or some other CC weapon.. if you nerf this on longbow we could also remove the weapon from warr because there is just no reason.. besides condi users ofc.

Yes people don’t understand the concept of " bow is only to clear conditions" other than that we only have 2 skills + 1 more trait ( Shroud it Off) to clear conditions, Shake it Off (1 condition 24 sec cd) and Signet of Stamina (cure all conditions 45 sec cd).

Why dont you use those skills in pvp and tell me how you did..

I MUCH rather have 3x stances and ZERO traits lost into a useless traitline…
(ow and btw we are already forced to go 4 into defence and 3 into discipline)

Lets all run warhorn now in pvp and blast sound them to deaf (no not death.. deaf)

Yeaah!

Gamgee.8612:

Is it only me that took pride in being good with the warrior back in the day? I mean when all you could do was go full out damage and hope that you could kill your opponent before you died. I don’t like being called OP whenever I kill someone. I’d rather play an underpowered class.

Frenzy time?? there where different skills/traits back then that made this possible
It wassnt possible after they nerfed that.. so we had to build more defensive..

etc etc.

Ark Bladesteele.2943:

Let me see if I can help you figure out the difference between framerate and “lag” (there are different kinds of lag, frame lag, network lag/latency, mouse lag, etc etc).

Are you saying that you get great performance, but you see people rubberbanding, or it takes a second or so for a skill to register and activate when you press it?

If that’s the case, neither has anything to do with the other. If your frame counter says you’re getting 90+ FPS but everything is choppy, that’s frame lag, and either your FPS counter is displaying the wrong frame information or there’s something else going on there that I can’t figure out.

This:
it takes a second or so for a skill to register and activate when i press it.

Krisztian.8405:

Hammer is a power based weapon, and putting merciless hammer in strength will result in great synergy.

As a master trait, I would expect to it to be moved to the master tier of strength. If that happens, with six points in strength, you’ll be able to get Merciless hammer + Berserker’s Power. Add sigils of impact and force, and you could reach +50% damage on hammer skills provided you have full adrenaline and your enemy is knocked down. Plus, you could still add runes of the scholar for + 10% more damage.

Can you imagine +60% damage earthshaker? or 3k auto attacks with zerk gear?

Personally, I’m for this suggestion. Zerk hammer warriors would rise again!

Issnt it just like full zerker GS warr??

I mean yeah this would give Hammer allot of damage if you trait for it.. but it cost you sustain ofc.. so i dont really see any problems.

Anyway most people will disagree ofc because 0/0/6/0/6 (and 2 where you want) is just so easy and it gives all you need for warr..

What about burst condition damage?

Yes i said it! BURST condi damge….

these days you get so much condi damage from passive/sigil/traits whatever.. some classes hit you once!! and you instant got:
5+ bleeding
3+ confusion
3+ torment
Poison
Long duration of blind..

Thats happens on start!! and your already kittened because they keep spamming this on you.

Atleast power burst is something you can see coming or can counter.. conditions is just a passive crap and often from save distance.

@OP: sure i am ok with this but only:

When they fix your spamming till it hits from stealth.
Why do i have a block skill when you can just spam your backstab till it hits FROM stealth.

Why use longbow if it doesnt have the guaranteed CI proc?

Thats the reason most warrior use longbow.. else everyone will use hammer or some other CC weapon.. if you nerf this on longbow we could also remove the weapon from warr because there is just no reason.. besides condi users ofc.

Is the main reason i dislike WVW.

My FPS is very high but still got terrible lagg when there is some popultion in wvw..

Reason 2 why i dislike wvw:
No population….
how is that even possible.. its wvw!! and most of the time i am alone!! yeah between 20:00 and 22:00 there are some zergs zerging around (and i get 1+sec lagg..) and thats it! the rest of the day NOTHING!

This is really bad.

Chokolata.1870:

Longbow f1 is indeed a bit to good. It does damage and is a guaranteed CI proc.

Yeah my Autoattack is also to good… it does damage and builds adrenaline.

Must nerf it.

Krisztian.8405:

yes, and lets replace it with the new brawler’s recovery. Also, let move banner regen to master tier, and fast hands to adept tier. Oh, and while we’re at it, lets replace the regen on banner from trait with condi cleanse every 3 seconds.

Wat? everyone else is making crazy suggestions….

It issnt a crazy suggestion.
Why do you think moving merciless hammer to strength is crazy?

GS traits are also in strength and arms traits..
So GS/LB is a crazy build because GS trait issnt like hammer in defense?

If you think about it it issnt crazy… GS/lb doesnt have the sustain like Hambow if you want GS to do more damage.. so you lose some sustain.. this issnt the point for Hammer. Hammer can go full defensive by traits and still get the Damage trait.

And if you like to suggest your crazy stuff, make a different topic…

coglin.1867:

You my dear OP need a dictionary. You appear to have no idea what the word “force” means. They do not force you to do anything.

They may overly incentivise you to take it over other options for most situations, but to claim they “force” you to do anything is a bit insulting.

Ok lets see how unwelcome you are if you come with your GS build or whatever in tpvp/spvp..

No, just spend there time to make new dungeons or pvp game modes pls

not a silly game, why even play GW2? you can play tons of that cheap game everywhere..

NinjaEd.3946:

More like 90% of warriors are afraid to move away from the easy to play builds. There are viable alternatives, you just aren’t comfortable stepping outside your face-roll zone. I don’t even use shouts+soldier runes or CI and my warrior build brushes conditions off like its nothing. Swap a few things around and I could make it an offense build I just don’t play my warrior much anymore because of my disgust towards it’s design.

There are other builds that works great.. i dont say i am using hambow.
But hambow gives the most to your group…

Condibunker/shout healing doesnt bring much into the group..
Axe-X/longbow aint bringing much to the team..
Same for
Axe-sword/longbow
Axe-shield/longbow
Axe-axe/longbow
Axe-sword/hammer
Axe-shield/hammer
Axe-axe/hammer
Axe-sword/Greatsword
Axe-shield/Greatsword
Axe-axe/Greatsword
Greatsword/longbow
Greatsword/Hammer
Sword-sword/longbow (condi)
Sword-shield/longbow (condi)
Mace-sword/longbow (condi)
Mace-sword/Hammer
Mace-shield/Greatsword

Most of these builds doesnt bring much for the rest of the team.. some builds may be better in 1vs1.. but thats it.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/balance/Anet-forcing-us-to-use-Hambow/first#post4308876

I am kinda sick that Anet keeps nerfing warrior but it only hurst different builds.
Where hambow always keeps very strong and doesnt get hit by these nerfs.

Moving Merciless Hammer to Strength traitline will slighty nerf there dmg. forcing them to either go more defensive or offensive..

Maby this way we can see some other buffs or something in return making different build more viable also..

Like GS is still very weak.. why? well you atleast need 20 traits into different traitline to make it viable.. and this weapon doesnt benefit from sigils like intteligence.
Hammer does so they dont need precision AND the trait is also in defense traitline….

I still think its because of this Hambow build we see so many nerfs, but it only hits other builds and not hambow.

The more nerfs warr get the more we are pushed into hambow.

Why?

Well warriors need CI and soon Burst mastery is more needed then before.
+ these traitlines gives:
Adrenaline health
Adrenaline on weapon swap
Fast hands
All traits that are kinda must have for warrior..
And triple stances skills are still the best skills for pvp.

only 1 weapon set benefit the most out of these traitlines/skill
And thats hambow.

This is why:

Hammer is also in defensive tree…
(where for GS you need atleast 4 traits into a different traitline to make it somewhat viable..)
Longbow doesnt need a trait to be viable

You dont need precision because hammer is just about 3x chainstun that benefit the most with sigil of intelligence..

And because the stunchain from hammer you also dont need a CC skill so you have room left for triple stance..
Where different weapons often need something like bulls charge to setup a burst.

Both weapons are Aoe burst attacks.
And only Hammer and longbow can stack might that fast

Maby its just me.. but i think Anet should move hammer trait to strength or something.. so they make hambow slightly less viable.

Because all they do now is nerfing other warrior builds.. the nerfs that are coming and from the past almost never hit hambow but it does hit allot of other builds all the time.

Hmm well i like mount just to give some extra in pve..

Sometimes its boring out there.

But only ground mounts with a very minor speed increase..

No 280% like wow!! and NO SUPER DUPER ULTRA dragons so all you see is dragons in lions arch.. kitten that is so ugly in WoW..

Just normal mounts

And i like this for every class:

Human:
A Horse ofc..

Charr:
Rock dog (ofc bigger):
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rock_dog

Norn
Minotaur
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Minotaur_concept_art.jpg

Asura:
Raptor
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Raptor

Sylvari:
A bigger Sylvan_hound
A bigger http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sylvan_Hound

Not that i use Rifle….

But yeah your AA will do less damage AND you miss:
+10% dmg on bleeding target

This traits was good for rifle..

i didnt care about that..

http://dulfy.net/2014/08/18/gw2-class-balance-changes-in-september-feature-pack/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/balance-changes-in-the-september-2014-feature-pack/

So it seems warr get the most nerfs again.
They are buffing necro with cleaving.. great..
No more Fiery greatsword it seems for dungeons :-P
Guardians get more buffs to lame spirit weapons (and to its support/offense… i dont get it because they are already master in support.. and there offense is great if they want to)
Mesmer will be more OP in duel.. still not viable in group
Ranger is Pew pew pewing all day long from range
And thiefs will be even more OP with p/d..

To:

leap
900 range
hits just like bulls (so no stupid slow end animation)

Why does guards get it incl blind..
Why does rangers have it incl evade..(next patch)
Why does a warrior have this terrible rush??

Getting kittened for 2sec long and not hitting anything, where you do get hit gets kinda annoying..

Apparition.1576:

HHR LostProphet.4801:

CntrlAltDefeat.1465:

Yes. It is not performing. Rush at 1200 units carries a 100% miss rate, even though it is in range and target is still. Whirlwind attack often fails to strike hit 2-3-4 and when range indicator clearly shows it is in range at 600 units, it will miss all strikes. It is also prone to terrain fail. It fails to achieve it’s maximum range and is halved by inclines. So yeah, it fails to perform as listed. If this doesn’t answer your question then you’re playing some sort of naive card. When it doesn’t strike when in range, when it fails to hit the listed 4 times at point blank range and fails as movement skill if there is a gentle incline, then yeah..that a weapon failing to live up to its description.

Rush carries a 100% missrate? Your whirlwind misses all the time and gets bugged in the terrain? You must really be the only one having problems with this.

1. Rush can be evaded. Rush does pretty high damage for the mobility it grants, thus the animation is pretty obvious and can be evaded easily.
Rush will never carry you 300 units away from your target, unless the target is moving very fast or is teleporting.

2. When you perform Whirlwind, your character spins and your sword has to hit the enemy to deal damage. So if your target stands to your left and your character spins anticlockwise, then yes, your Whirlwind won’t hit him. And that’s your fault.

3. Whirlwind bugs into the terrain? Never happend to me, unless I tried to spin over an obstacle. Also, you should try Point Blank Shot. At uneven terrain, that skill bugs out more often than not.

At last, let me tell you that it doesn’t look very smart of you judging my skills without even seeing me once.

The only problems I can see is that the pathing of Rush could be improved and that Whirlwind behaves rather strange under the effect of Quickness.

Or if fixing Rush is so difficult, they could just change the skill into an ability where the dmg is front loaded at the point of contact. Like charge, but change the vertical slash into a horizontal slash (on contact) or get rid of the swing animation all together.

Indeed… getting tired of the slow end animation where people just walk 2 steps to the left and you already miss.

Can you show me a charr version?..
The gear is ugly.
Huge gap between legs and boots from behind.
Shoulders are lame.
Chest have to many stripes what makes the details hard to see and looks weird from distant.
And the pants cloth part (banner thing) only looks nice on female human.. (you should check this on charr.. Haha soo ugly)

And this topic is damb old btw, how do you even find this?

They already nerfed combu shot twice…

The ticks are so slow you could walk over and get zero damage. That why its so big.
If it was made smaller (they did on lvl 2) they also should increase the ticks again.

And for the record, its a burst attack.. And you compare it to a normal attack..

0/4/6/0/4. gs/lb
hoelbrak with bulls
I use it now for a year.. Works perfect!!

ps not so sure why many goes 4/0/6/0/4..
its wvw where you get strength by food and sigil etc..
Its much better to go for -20% cd on gs..
and it gives you more precision [10%]and another 10% for burst attack.. That would do nice witth the new gs burst.
+ arms also gives condi damage for an extra on longbow

Ow yeah and might on crit + hoelbrak works great also

Frenk.5917:

But, wait, so a level 2 character created for SPVP only who only has 4 pieces of armor instead of 6 pieces is penalized??

No i think its only your chest/legs and… dunno boots i think?

if they gonna buff Mace 1/2/3 they also reduce the 3 sec stun from F1?

like they nerfed some from Greatsword to buff F1….

Dunno.. be carefull for what you ask :-)

And before you say… well the skill aint great now so why nerf other..
Same for GS.. the skills where fine and nobody used F1.. so why does it need some nerfs in damage to buff its F1.. its minor i know but still it doesnt make sense

I think F1 mace will do just fine just like now…

with mace you can land a daze first or maby use shield bash > F1… with that i dont see any problems.

Mace F1 is still fast enough to land its 3+sec stun when bashing/dazing first

Before you could just instant stun someone without a proper setup like shield bash > F1..

Thats why they changed it… and this adrenaline doesnt change it.. it affect all warr weapons (beside longbow i guess but thats also a different skill)

Warrior is my main and i never have problems landing a mace F1 with shield..
Same for Axe… and sword > leap > shield bash > F1..

There are tons of ways to land it.

Richy Lao.8346:

thats why you lost so many games

Yup all of them :-)

Anyway, its annoying… you have to get back to lions arch or whatever to fix your gear and get back..

NeXeD.3042:

Wait this actually effects you in pvp?

yes

Fix it pls.

I run into pvp so many times wondering why i do so bad, finding out my gear is broken (from wvw or whatever) and ofc no repair againt in pvp.

Liewec.2896:

its a buff for me, all of my builds are very crit oriented so i usually pile in signets and run with deep strike i have SoR just for the extra precision and passive adrenaline and i never click it, so woo!

thats very weird… a warrior that never use his SoR?? you do know you get way more from using it vs deep strike.

That trait is so bad.

Its not the same as the passive effect like retaliation.

Where does is say it stilll apply on evade? because even wiki doesnt say it still apply on evade..

Debilitating Dissipation
Trait line Mesmer tango icon 20px.png Chaos Tier Adept Type Major Cost 10 Silver coin + 2 Skill point.png Unlock requirement Earn 100% completion in the Fields of Ruin.

“
Clones apply a random condition to nearby foes when they are killed.

Bleeding 40px.png3 Bleeding: 5 s (638 damage)
Vulnerability 40px.png3 Vulnerability: 5 s
Weakness 40px.png Weakness: 3 s
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Targets: 5
Range.png Radius: 240
— In-game description

[edit] Notes
The effect triggers when a clone stops existing through any means other than a shatter skill.

Atherakhia.4086:

You could always swap it (25/50/75 instead of 75/50/25) and leave the high crit chance as the buff duration would likely limit your chances of getting that third hit off unless you use all 3 attacks on your auto swings.

That said, it will be a tough pill to swallow because my Ranger kitten near relies on this rune to kill anything in melee range because of how poorly designed the class is :/

there are multiple ways to rebalance this sigil ofc :-)

This would indeed hurt some builds really hard, but thats the point.

Your class shouldnt be relying on this sigil like you are saying.. thats a problem they should fix ofc for you class.

But some classes dont really need this sigil, but IF they do they can just drop precision and stack defensive..

Now this issnt for every class and weapon ofc, more on burst attack weapons.

With this they atleast benefit from precision..

Also this need some tweaking because with fury they still have almost 3x guarantee crits..

Maby make it 60%/40%/20%

With fury and ZERO precision you still have:

80%/60%/40% crit chance

And with lets say 20% base crit chance and fury you have:

100%/80%/60% crit chance

And someone who does invest into precision you often have around 50% base crit.. that would be

100% / 100% / 90% crit without fury! ..

I hope you get my point

there should be some tweaking because 15 stacks in pvp for bloodlust is ofc to low

But i hope you get my point :-)

Hello mesmers,

When i use Whirlwind attack from my Greatsword warrior onto your clones, i still get detstroyed conditions.

Now this is ofc the way it should be, BUT whirlwind attack is an EVADE attack.. why do i still get conditions when evading?

i cant findout why this happens.

Intel sigil from:

3 × 100% crit chance

to

first hit +75% crit chance
second hit + 50% crit chance
third hit + 25% crit chance

Now classes can build full defensive and just completely ignore the stat precision.

Even with this you can ignore the stat precision.. BUT it wouldnt give you a guarantee 3x 100% crit chance anymore.

Make max. stacks of might and sigil bonus (bloodlust etc):

15 in pvp
20 in wvw
25 in pve

This would solve some problems like the unbalanced celestial classes with allot of sustain AND allot of damage. (can be power or condi)

Maby tweak some more.. but the idea is that you can buff your stats, but not THAT much.. now those builds rely so much on these stacking system they can swap to much offensive stats to defensive.

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

nicknamenick.2437:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

nicknamenick.2437:

Too both Durzlla AND Drarnor..

I NEVER talked about Dogged march.

I reply on this from Dranor:
Life steal food: 325 health/sec max (assuming 1 proc/second, not unlikely)

The ONLY life steal food there is in this game is Blood and leeching.
leeching is something you get from swapping and blood from crits (50% chance)

again WHERE do you get 325hps from food??

You just twist my words.. you both do.

And you say i am failing horribly at reading?? lol..

Well, you are failing horribly at reading. We’re talking about life steal food. You know, food, the stuff you eat? The things not named “Sigil.”

Ah yes sorry i automatic think about sigil because sigils gives more HPS compared to food…

So ok you say “food” gives 350 hps?

Mango Pie
Gain 85 health every second

pls tell me how to get the other 240hps..

Or your talking about Bowl of Cactus Fruit Salad or something?

if this is indeed a 1 sec ICD i would buy it!

Look up “Slice of Candied Dragon Roll”, “Omnomberry Pie” or “Omnomberry Ghost”.

yeah been looking at it right now.. WTF!!! these where always trash!! and they are 66% chance on crit with ICD says wiki!! lol gonna use this on my ranger :-P

Not that great on warr btw.. because warr issnt really a autoattack spammer.. so you wont trigger this food very much

Too both Durzlla AND Drarnor..

I NEVER talked about Dogged march.

I reply on this from Dranor:
Life steal food: 325 health/sec max (assuming 1 proc/second, not unlikely)

The ONLY life steal food there is in this game is Blood and leeching.
leeching is something you get from swapping and blood from crits (50% chance)

again WHERE do you get 325hps from food??

You just twist my words.. you both do.

And you say i am failing horribly at reading?? lol..

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

xbutcherx.3861:

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

xbutcherx.3861:

Esplen.3940:

Additionally, you can add in Crit-heal food for almost 700 hp/sec.

Are we playing the same game? 700 hp/sec? This is the reason some people shouldn’t be posting at all.

Have you looked at what the on-crit foods do? Just those and Healing Signet are very much capable of 700 HP/sec. With 0 Healing Power, you can easily get 687 healing/second. 200 healing power from traits and you’re at 707 HP/sec. Factor in Adrenal health and you’re looking at a very impressive 934 HP/sec at just 200 healing power.

LOL first healing trait (Adrenaline Health)is every 3 secs full heal (351 hp)with full adrenaline,
second: have you ever used crit healing foodafter nerf? I think not.
third: Dogged March is a 3 sec regeneration of a 390 heal total 10 sec CD.
Get your facts together before posting.

I did make a small mistake. Somehow I got an extra 110 HP/Sec in my equation (which fits nowhere, so it’s a mystery to me).

Healing Signet at 200 HP: 372 HP/sec
Life steal food: 325 health/sec max (assuming 1 proc/second, not unlikely)
Adrenal Health at 200 HP: 127 HP/sec
372+325+127= 824.

Still extremely respectable. More Healing Power can crank that up significantly and you still don’t have the Regeneration boon.

Crit-lifesteal food; Yes, though not on my Warrior.
Dogged March: never got mentioned before, so I have no clue why you think it’s relevant.

omg.. do you even check wiki or something?

Did you even read something about ICD? no? well maby you should before posting
this:

Life steal food: 325 health/sec max (assuming 1 proc/second, not unlikely)

OMG!! if that would be even possible EVERYONE would us it…

ICD my friend…….

50% buff still sucks if you think about it..

Normally its 1 adr every 3 sec? So

2 every 6 sec
And now you get
3 every 6 sec

Pff you dont even feel the difference but you do with the boon nerf

And why the SoR nerf…. Again a useless nerf

Drarnor Kunoram.5180:

New Arcing Slice can deal ~86% of the damage of a full channel Hundred Blades in one hit, and also does it in an AoE around you. That’s a really hefty hit.

The damage nerf of 40% of one (non-final) hit on Hundred Blades and a 5% hit on whirlwind Attack are probably entirely justified.

Uuh arcing slice is not even close to 50% damage of 100b.. And thats when target is also below 50% health!! above that this skill is just a 1,kitten from AA..

Before arcing slice sucks and now it can be decent.. Still no reason, ZERO reasons tho compensate it in 100b and whirlwind.!

They just needed to nerf some more i guess

Maby they think we will use rampage more?? No?

Maby reduce its boon Duration more so anet forcing us to use diff elite skills?

Totally unnecessary nerf

Leap/rush

And only removes immobilize at the beginning of the leap/rush skills.. So when you rush and get immob during the rush skill you still get immob..

Why does this weapon need a dmg nerf?

The weapon is already under used in pvp because landing a full 100b is never possible and you have to use some diff skill/weapon to even land some of the hits..

Only the final strike is the same but again you never hit the final strike.

whirlwind dmg nerf… Why? Really dont know why because the damage wassnt high on moving targets.. Real players are not like mobs standing at a wall.. So you can even hit more then 2 hits from whirlwind

And all that for the arcing slice buff?
Damage above 50% is still crap!! And i hate the 50% trigger system. Cant even see if its really 50%
Just like final strike you often just waste your time and now also adrenaline. I dont think this skill buff need tho nerf the dmg on other skill.

If anything i was thinking a dmg nerf on evi or hammer… Not Gs!

Well i am a warrior since day one, and i do think they should reduce its dmg from Evi.
Its mostly the combination of Axe + intel runes + celestial amu + strength runes + burst mastery..

Now nerfing one of those would nerf allot more builds. so its more logical to nerf the dmg on Evi.

What i hate most is berserker/celestial warrs still does ALLOT of dmg from impale, that skill should apply the stacks right from the start so you CAN cleanse it.. now you have to wait before it can be removed..
Or they have to increase the cooldown of that skill.

I dont hope we only get nerfs..

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No pls i dont want real earrings on my charr..