Circular argument much?
no
by “it should” I mean
“I haven’t checked myself, but based on what I know, I conclude that it very likely does”
I do not have any control over what is put into the game.
maybe
but air overload has a huge AoE, as does wildfire, and is over half the dps, and lightning whip’s AoE is as big or bigger than lava font’s, so I don’t think so
the cooldown is 40s, the same as the skill’s
I’ve been constantly getting better DPS with staff at the new training area in Aerodrome, even against small targets.
something is wrong with your d/w rotation, then
here’s an example of a good rotation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEbPcNa2PC0
d/w is better dps in all situations in which it can stay in range
staff is better dps if both you can’t stay in range and the target doesn’t move out of lava font much
And yes, all situations means even on large hitboxes, though the difference is extremely small (less than 5%) for large hitboxes
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In PvE raids staff is neck to neck with D/WH, with this buff it’ll pull ahead.
Nah, I tested in the new test room, and d/w is better dps than staff even on large targets, even with the buff to fireball (though only very slightly). And of course way better dps to smaller targets.
the range is great for some fights though (gorseval)
We disregard overloads because both cases use their overloads.
nope
air overload is much stronger than fire overload AND is used much more frequently
The point is to have fun.
came to post this
I don’t like most open world big group events because they don’t really require teamwork. Raids do, and for me, that’s fun.
it’s in the raid lobby
medium . .
Yes, the update was amazing. Work isn’t done yet, though. They need to fix a bunch of bugs.
lol at people trying to preach. Yes a dps test isn’t the be all end all of raiding successfully. I think the tc knows this already. But if your raid isn’t successful, you can use a dps test to narrow down the problems and see where you need to improve. Pure dps is fine? you know it’s the mechanics, or respecting the mechanics efficiently. Pure dps is not fine? You know it’s rotations or builds or boon distribution.
well. 2 min kill on 10m golem = 6:30 VG split, but half the party has to move around or throw out knockbacks in the actal fight, so you’ll want to kill notably faster
get a 200 upvote coment on a reddit AMA
is probably the only way
He means that on the strongest weapon eles have, Fireball is the strongest auto-attack. Not that it is the strongest auto-attack we have.
I see
Well, the only place staff might be the best is wvw ZvZ
Uhm… Boon-Stripping is random as far as i know, same with condi removal.
no, whatever condition was applied most recently is removed first
I don’t strip many boons, so I can’t say for sure anything except that thief’s bountiful theft prioritizes stability, and the fractal instability prioritizes protection (or used to)
What am I seeing here?
it should
raids require HoT
No, druid has the only heals that buff damage. Rev is not alone. Every other class lacks that as well.
rev has its own way of supporting dps anyway
no, there needs to be active play on both sides
automatically stripping the best boons is not that
Fireball
strongest autoattack of the strongest weapon
wut
your wish has been granted
Typically you want very high damage gear.
For most classes/builds, this means Berserker’s. This is true for warrior, guardian, and elementalist.
However, for elementalist specifically (and also thief) I recommend taking a few pieces of Marauder gear for some extra health. Why? Because you lose very little damage for this in the first place, and then ele has way more than enough dps to meet the dps checks, and you don’t want to be that one ele who keeps going down.
Quality of the gear is as the previous people said. But to reiterate,
Ascended weapons, because they make a notable difference,
ascended trinkets, merely because they are easy to get—not having them mostly just shows a lack of effort/dedication,
and then most people don’t mind exotic armor, though ascended is obviously preferred.
Ascended weapons typically need to be crafted. The only other real options are getting extremely lucky or buying them from raid-earned currency.
Ascended trinkets can be gotten from fractals, laurels, and guild commendations.
Typically you get rings from fractals, accessories from guild commendations, and amulet from laurels.
Also, elementalist can play as healer, and for Vale Guardian, you may want to use your guardian to tank (not recommended for your first runs, as it’s the hardest job), in which cases you’ll want somewhat different gear.
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Super Adventure Box
1. Fix the bug with arcane instead.
2. Why? This doesn’t make sense to me. I can see making it 4 seconds, to match the duration of the channel. Or even better, make it 1 second applied every 1 second while channeling. but 5? what
1. What is the goal behind deemphasizing proper positioning and coordination?
Actually, OP didn’t really say what was being asked about at all. What does “best” mean? Most reliable? Fastest? Most effortless?
You’re talking about chaining dodges but you don’t dodge killing trash mobs in OW PVE.
Ok bro, I’ll keep it short and to the point.
- Chaining dodges is for getting from place to place, not killing.* Vault is for killing.
- If you don’t want to put in any effort and don’t mind being slower, 1 dodge every ~25 seconds = same run speed as taking the signet.
- If you don’t mind spamming skills and want to get there literally 2 or 3 times as fast, you can spam mobility skills to do so.
.* You do sometimes dodge in combat even in easymode land. If you do, it’s for one of 3 things, from most common to least:
1. closing the gap to your target without using initiative, since your dodge is also a dash.
2. removing cripple/immob/chill.
3. dodging a knockdown
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If GW2 had no jumping puzzles, I would not still be playing. no joke. I would have been done with the game around winter 2012/2013.
I stopped playing in early 2013 (a bit later than I would have if there were no JPs), and then Super Adventure Box brought me back for a bit. And then I stopped again, and the next iteration of SAB brought me back again. SAB is one big JP, so that wouldn’t have happened with no JPs, obviously. And that combined with the game being overall less awesome means I wouldn’t have cared enough to buy HoT and come back for the expansion.
A big part of why I liked this game, perhaps the biggest single thing, is that it was the best current 3D platformer I knew of. Every platformer these days is 2D, which is greatly inferior.
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and now this specific fractals cant be done without boon strip spam and/or condi spam
They most certainly can be done without boon strip spam or condi spam.
Yeah, all I did was swap in more heal support to help the party sustain through the retaliation damage. Done. That was all that was needed.
bro
anything related to overloads—ie related to Tempest—can only go in the Tempest trait line
Generally speaking, thief offers the least support, but beyond that it depends on what kind of support you want.
Fortunately, 99.38% damage reduction is not something you can get without rite of the great dwarf. Protection and frost aura stack, but rune of the scrapper and geomancer’s defense don’t stack additively with them. Protection + frost aura = -50%. Adding geomancer’s defense makes it -55% rather than -60%.
I don’t like any of the skins (except The Dreamer)
I would rather spend my money on multiple sets of ascended gear for different builds
I have never even seen a precursor
Inability to freely swap sigils means little to no functional advantage over ascended
bandit prison camp is actually the only raid I haven’t completed
This week I joined a group, did Matthias, and then we did sloth, and then swapped out about 3 players for randoms from LFG, and then wiped repeatedly on prison camp.
this instability makes it Mandatory to not run a smidgen of precision in yoru build and go pure condi
no, it just makes it harder
plus most condi build have crit anyway (viper and sinister have precision), and it only takes one or two dudes critting for the mobs to get stability and retaliation
The entire party needs to be dire/carrion for you to ignore the instability. I have never seen that happen, and I have all the achievements in the fractal section.
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You don’t swap to shortbow unless you need to cover a lot of distance or are already out of combat. If the next place you want to be is less than 10 seconds away, you just dash dash vault/shadowstep/steal, and maybe swap and shoot an arrow or two if you leave combat before you arrive.
You’re posted build will not compete with the one I posted in Core OW content. Sustain, defense are not necessary and it actually lacks mobility without a constant runspeed buff. How it performs in HoT, I can’t say, but probably much better, though still very slow to move around without a speed buff.
I guess you haven’t played daredevil
…and didn’t look at the traits
Take a look at the third trait in the daredevil line, Unhindered Combatant. Here’s what it does:
grants 10 seconds of swiftness on dodge
travels 50% farther than a normal dodge, over the same time frame
removes immob/chill/cripple on dodge
(and grants 10% damage reduction for 4 seconds, but that’s not releveant for easy stuff)
While chaining dodges, not only am I stacking more swiftness than I could ever possibly need, but also I am moving 50% faster than someone running with swiftness. And this is just as fast in combat as out, so it amps up to more than twice as fast as someone with swiftness while in combat.
The build has just short of the absolute most mobility you can get in the game. And for getting from place to place, you are never not teleporting or dashing, so you ignore the in combat speed reduction too, in case you get hit by something.
Spawn on map. Decide where I want to be, and then dash shortbow shadowstep shortbow dash dash signet dash dash heal dash shortbow dash. That’s about 3700 distance in 3 seconds, and 8000 in 10 seconds. For comparison, running with permaswiftness is 400 per second. ie 1200 in 3 seconds and 4000 in 10. (266 per second in combat)
95%+ of fractals that get run is still zerker meta
Furthermore, Infiltrators arrow does not give you speed, it just mimics Dagger #3, with a higher cost AND requires you to swap weapons to get it
oh please, you don’t use shortbow to attack things (usually). It’s for getting to where you need to go.
also most of the mobs that you can’t facetank are also immune to blind. especially in HoT, where nearly everything has a break bar.
Really, you’re just going to have to post an actual build
This is my preferred build for open world:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vZAQJAWVn8lClOhNOBGOBkmiFqiau67+yvLCCgDYLHHsqD-TxCBQBA4CAkHNBB4BAoPdAYRpnAV/pI7PcGlgS4QAoRlBQ4IAAA-e
maximizes mobility, with lots of sustain and defense, and high damage
Thanks all for the advice, but quick question do guardians multi task at all?: Like support and do decent dps at the same time? Do they buff allot?
yes
for example, guardian’s highest dps build for raids provides permanent AoE protection a bit of healing
1. Fast: Infiltrator’s Arrow
fixed that for you
I see little that makes Daredevil excel over base thief
It’s the dodge.
You can either gain dps when dodging instead of losing dps like every other class, or, what I feel is much better most of the time, you can get free permaswiftness and a lots of dashes and immunity to every disabling condition. Also makes a dps utility that doubles as a condi cleanse (signet of agility) also double as a mobility utility. Nothing gets around as fast as a daredevil.
ALSO, clarification. While thief is the best, it is not the most effortless.
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For PvE? Go nuts, you can run anything in PvE because its boring and requires no skill.
This is false, but
condi ele is actually good in pve because you don’t have to worry about things cleansing your burn stack or avoiding your fire fields
A lot of armors have really bad dye channels. Like the worst I’ve seen is Aetherblade light pants. One channel covers the entire thing except the belt, even though it has two very distinct parts, in addition to patterns and such, and then the belt alone has two channels—one for the buckles.
“resctricted” means what?
Delete my thieves!?! What! But I already deleted my thievea. Dangit! I knew you were up to no good. Of course, if you got everyone else to delete their thievea, your thievea would be the only thievea left. And now you’re trying to hide it.
against players? not really
ele can’t do condi bursts or covering conditions
daredevil is #1
I watch them after the fact too, but mostly just because I can skip around in a recorded video, but can’t do that in a live stream
that would be great
I wouldn’t have to carry 3+ sets of gear around and make 500 clicks to swap builds
As far as I’m concerned, it’s buy to play with unlimited free trial
Wondering if anyone has bothered trying out rev as primary healer in raids.