Guild Wars 2

power/toughness/vitality ^^

If you really wanted a fast run you would ask for 3-4 eles :/

Why in earth would you ask for 2 warriors?

You can easily stomp a thief with any shadowstep/blink of your own. Engis is probably the worst, followed by mesmers, thieves, and then necro, depending on the situation obviously. At least for a power necro, 1 and 3 hit like a truck, and a fear is still better than the engi’s pull.

If you really want to use hammer, you could do it with a group you trust and just bring hallowed ground before starting your auto attack chain, that way the light fields won’t override the fire one. Still lack burst, but you won’t make your eles sad, and won’t be forced into a weaponset you don’t like.

For each fgs nerf, i’ll kill a kitten. I warned you Anet, I warned you!

Wait, 2 hours for ac p2?

Maybe you didn’t realize you have to read the description before joining?

deSade.9437:

oxtred.7658:

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

have you ever tried doing lupi in tanky gear?
I was soldier warr with zerk trinkets and I could facetank the whole aoe/single target drain.

I don’t know, P2 aoe could probably kill a non-warrior nomad. I need more money to craft my nomad set and test it myself!

i’ve killed hambow warriors hundred times. “Look, he’s enraging, better dodge that huge cc!” " ok, he’s at 75% health, hambow starts casting signet of rage" " stunbreaked out of hammer 4, now back to mindless dps" " 25% health, burst" Yup, soloing lupi is harder than killing most pvp players. Fortunately, pvp isn’t about 1v1 and requires situation awareness. But don’t think all pvers are mindless spammer without any knowledge about the game. In faact, most top pve players are better than average at pvp.

Yeah, because pvp isn’t about avoiding predictable attacks at all. Anyway, berserker in pvp is rather weak for an engineer, try a celestial/ condi build. I know my bombs hit for about 8k in pve, but that’s a full offensive spec, 3-4 in berserker gear is not that bad in pvp.

Full knight will lack some power. My ranger isn’t geared for www ( that’s my next thing to do), but I know my guard is doing well with knight trinkets+ 2 ptv and 4 zerker pieces. That’s probably a bit squishy for a ranger without good mitigation, but getting at least 3 berserker pieces would help boosting your dps. I’d say just buy the ptv armor and then adjust depending on how good you become at surviving. Remember that applied fortitude gives 2,5k health.

You camp hammer auto, and switch to greatsword for the burst ( 2>3>4>5> auto attack>2) then switch back and repeat. That said, hammer is still inferior to sw/f or sc/f in dungeons, because you lack burst, and since you need 4 points in the honor traitline you loose interesting traits, like absolute resolution or multipliers. For longer dungeons fight, the light field spam cripples the ability of LH eles to keep might at 25.

See http://www.dtguilds.com/forum/m/6563292/viewthread/12646847-guardian-dps-build-theory-by-obal-dekeyz for more.

And here ladies and gentlemen is the jealous kid op told us about.

Yeah, a few might isn’t that great compared to another utility imo. Also, lb is better in zergs, but it’s lacking in close quarters fight. Depending on how good axe is after the patch it could be a viable alternative.

I’d swap out sig. of the hunt in group, because swiftness is abundant in those. I really like lightning reflexes, stunbreak, evade, and repositioning with a low cd. When zerging, swap your heal to healing spring for the long lasting water field. The gear seems a bit too defensive in my opinion, having some more precision/ critical damage wouldn’t hurt. I’m also not a big fan of the runes. If you have trouble with conditions, maybe get some melandru runes? They are expensive, but really great. To compensate the loss of tanky gear, an energy sigil on the gs could suits you. That’s just nitpicking, the build does work, even more so when signets will work on their own. Have fun!

J Eberle.9312:

Pugs.

I was waiting for this one. But it’s totally normal, no one bothered to improve their AI for 2 years.

Meh, it’ not needed. I wouldn’t mind, but i’d prefer them fixing all the other bugs crippling mesmers.

No problem. ^^

They are good in tpvp ( and even then, meta is shifting away from those) but in zergs where massive aoe damage are thrown out, they can’t survive more than a second. Just like the pet, but that’s another story. So meh, spirit builds aren’t viable in zergs.

Minigrump.4961:

This makes running dungeons a lot more entertaining for me for some reason. Just Pugging or running in an organised group, I play the song “Everything is Awesome” from the lego movie.

I played that in roaming and I must agree, everything feels.. well, awesome.

That could work, but they’ll probably die in P2 even in nomad, so it may end up like a solo. Wich isn’t really something new.

Yeah, i was answering no for the " Will i be let down at the end?" part, we do agree. However, spirits isn’t a solution in zerg. They get killed really easily by aoe.

Short answer: no.
Quite short answer: no, in pve rangers aren’t that bad, they are pretty good in pugs and chilled runs, and they are getting upped next patch. In pvp/tpvp, most condi specs are quite strong as close holder, and some 1v1 specs are powerful ( condi bunker anyone?).
They are lacking in the zerg department.

I actually never bothered to ask myself that :O
Hmm. Inquest technicians ? I hate those.

( If you don’t mind, why are you asking?)
Ele is the most powerful class right now in pve, necros are in a weak spot, mesmers as well. What game mode do you want to play, what role do you want to achieve, and what mechanics are attractive for you?

Scepter is better on large hitbox lupi ( ac endbosses, lupicus, etc), otherwise prefer sword. I kinda skipped the WwW section, let me elaborate a bit more:
For solo roaming or small scale, meditations are powerful and fun, with gs/ sword focus, same as pve. I use a mace/ shield/ greatsword build for small scale, emphazing on boon spam with shouts along with good condi removal, the build is a variant from boonway, look up on the forum. For large scale, zergs and such, all 2 handed weapons works wonder, staff/ hammer is the most supportive you can get. Check Healway and Boonway builds, and if you have any specific question or just want to do some dungeons with me so i can provide general advices ( and if you’re EU) pm me.

Have fun!

Necromancers lack survivability when focused. They highly rely on death shroud to survive. You should rotate between your offensive abilities outside of DS, and stay in it a bit when taking damage to avoid loosing actual health. Utilities like well of darkness for blinds and spectral armor will boost your survivability. But even then, you shouldn’t die in open world. Maybe update your gear to have level 40 gear or so?

“Larcening strike now costs 18 initiative.”

A good thread isn’t really a good thread without Vee Wee.

Archdiviner now bubbles everything not in its hitbox ?

Mai. Cannon phase.

Both are fun, guardian is more appreciated in group. Necro is a selfish damage dealer class, whereas guard is a support-ish respectable damage class. Most people will advice guardian, because necros are lacking boon share, invulnerabilities, and vigor access. For spvp necros aren’t in a bad place in group, but they suffer from being focused.

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Since precise wrack gives you another 10%, i use berserker armor and i stack perception. Even then, bloodlust would probably do more damage. No real maths there, it’s just feeling, but i’m under the impression more than 70% crit chance is too much. If all your shatter crit, but for the same amount that a non crit from a full power char, it’s pretty useless. I think Bamf Joe uses all berserker with 3 assassin pieces, that would be the best mix imo. Precision is far more useful in pve where a good part of your damage is from reflects.

Trice.4598:

but lupicus would take too much time to get the stack off from the shaman, so it would just be both of them healing up everytime

Another proof of healing builds superiority in pve.

Lupi P2 aoe > no more adds. Lupi wins imo.

If you want to get into www seriously, guard stacks are really great. If you don’t, cheap abilities like supply master and build mastery are a good start. Then depending on your class/build, ram mastery and catapult mastery are in need usually.

Welcome back! Sadly gw2 isn’t really alt friendly now, because you may have noticed they changed the trait point system, and low level chars are considerably weaker, and forcing you to buy traits/ complete events to unlock them. Leveling is far more tedious than before, but the game has still a lot to offer at 80. I’m not aware of any way to know where to unlock the skins you miss, some are coming from dungeons, others are lootable, others are from WwW.. PvP rank matters as a token of your dedication to pvp, and you still unlock finishers based on your ranks. The living story here is far better than the first season, i didn’t play the last episode so can’t comment on that but the new map dry top is really nice. The wardrobe is indeed a good thing overall. Server pop is healthier due to megaservers, you’re actually playing with people from all servers when going into low populated maps. Didn’t play SWTOR so i can’t offer a comparison, but gw2 is still a fun game, especially in dungeons, but the WwW community is left apart, and there’s still bug fixes and QoL improvements to make it even better.

I main engi. The discussion apply to all cheesy builds, engi was an exemple. Don’t take it personally because your class is targeted, it’s an exemple amongst other. The particularity of turret engis is their strenght come from the game mode flaws, and not a broken combination of traits/ runes/ stats.

No, it would take luck. Guys, let’s give 15k ap to that one dude that got 2 precursors drop on his “hardcore” ( lol, it would be open world farming, there’s nothing hardcore in frostgorge and orr farming) char! You don’t realize how substantial 15k ap is. Titles like champion shadow/magus/genius takes a bit of time and are more skill based than this one, and they don’t give near that amout. The reward could be 100 ap max, and even then that’s just grinding for ap. 300% magic find is so high i don’t even know how you can keep a straight face saying it. If you have a problem with tp, just make a post about how you don’t like the tp.

I myself can take 3 people on far point with a bunker spec. But those people probably aren’t amazing at all. Anyway, decap engis are a problem because they can, well, decap. In addition to their capacity of denying a cap, they can also totally neutralize a point against a non stab heavy char. The match up isn’t unwinnable ( mostly because most turret engi just spam them all on point and a single cleave is enough), it’s far more involving for the assaulter and it’s infuriating to fight against. Everyone is taking it personally, but fact is that turret engis are powerful on average play ( not that much in high level) and considered cheesy, no matter what you and me think about it. OP asked why people are playing turret engi, so i and other gave him reasons and general knowledge about how they work ( for a reminder, because everyone knows how it works, it’s more for new people reading through). I’m perfectly aware of how they work, what counter them, what are the meta builds for engi right now. Turret is annoying to fight and are the king of contest due to their aoe knockback abilities.

Diablo III was heavily marked by tp use. Anyway, Do you even realize what you’re saying? 15k ap? 300% magic find? Killing 100K people in WwW give you like 20 ap. Your suggestion is far over the top, you probably have no experience with game balancing at all, wich is fine, but you also lack logic. 15k ap is more than what i got in 3K hours of intense playing. Having those silly loots for a grind quest is just a big no.

Then don’t use it?

I can’t see how giving 300% magic find and 15k ap to someone ( so, free gold, better loots, etc) will do anything to the trading post.

I don’t get your point. Are you saying a sub 80 player will have the same amout of utilities than a 80? Because if that’s the case, i remember my upleveled thief hitting for 180 backstab 2 years ago when i was leveling it. That’s less than 1/10 of what i do now. Ascended is already grindy enough for a “casual” game, gear tiers aren’t mandatory.

Everything is viable. You can run dungeons naked if you want. But when you enter a team, the 4 other guy expect you to do your job, and your job is damage mitigation along with condi removal and stability. Toughness and vitality from gear will make you unkillable, but that doesn’t help your party at all, they don’t really care if you have 5k more hp, you may recover from a mistake when they don’t, but less dps equals more time to fail a dodge or something. The best support you can get is by using different utilities not tied to gear at all. For leveling, greatsword is indeed the best weapon with whatever suits you on swap, i myself used gs/ sword focus for my 3 guard and it works wonder. Put some points in radiance and virtues first, then move to zeal.

Do you understand we’re talking about contest where the goal is to cap points and sitting outside the point is useless? Having 1 point saved from any cap without at least 3 people pushing it ( assuming the engi is good) is the problem. The spec itself isn’t strong in 1v1, everyone knows that. Hammer stuns all have animations, the only tricky one is hammer 4 because it’s a fast cast, but it’s totally doable. Hammer wars are strong, but they can’t deny a point from 3 people assuming an average level.

Rozbuska.5263:

nearlight.3064:

My phone keeps deleting my detailed response to each of your answers so here is the shortened version.

Why do you play a build that most other players do not respect? I’d rather play complex high risk reward specs, than something similar to a turret engi. And doesn’t sitting in a point for the whole match get boring?

And the guy who made that comment about mesmers using illusions to win , unless you were talking to a PU mesmer, then I suggest you learn more about mesmers, because they are a sad to play class because they depend on illusions to do anything. .

For engi is illusion mesmer very hard opponent because our range weapons dont oneshot them. But ok let take other class.. What about hambow war? Everyone from noobs to “pro” players play it (and dont tell me something else because I dont met other war build in pvp like 6 months). Everyone hates it did they stop using it? No. So why shoud we? Turret engi is pretty easy counterable its just L2P issue so stop crying and go improve your skill.

That’s totally the kind of useless answer not helping at all. Turret engi is counterable by high stability uptime classes > warriors, and to a lesser extent, guards and eles. It’s absolutely not a matter of L2P. That “l2P” is thrown out ad nauseam for stupid reasons, I’m pretty confident everyone here knows how to play and what to do. There’s no counter to spammable aoe knockdown in a contest game mode. If you consider yourself that good, please show us how you deal with a turret engi, and i’m not speaking of low level engis spamming mindlessly but rather a good player playing turret.

Just a friendly reminder: axe 5 deals less damage than axe auto, and even with the damage boost, it’ll probably be equal.

Seeking efficiency is a thing in every single game, and even in real life organisation. And in gw2, the most efficient builds in pvp are also the easiest.

The engi rotation is the hardest to master perfeclty imo. I play my ele half afk, and i must focus at 100% for my engi. Shrapnel is good in solo or if the group can’t cap bleeds, otherwise the 5% modifier is a thing ( although unreliable). If you can’t get the hang of bomb kit, i’d say go with either elixir gun (4 hits like a truck and you can use it in a fire field to stack might) or utility googles. Analyse is great, and fury is always nice to have. But bomb is still a better choice in most cases.

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You. You’re funny. I like it.