Guild Wars 2

Yes, Warrior is easier for beginners to play and harder for beginners to counter, but in higher-level play it is fairly balanced and even considered somewhat weak.

Both Warriors and non-Warriors need to get good, pretty much.

It’s kind of like Terran in Starcraft II.

Despite the recent nerfs I’ve been having a great deal of success with this new Skull Cracker variation. It takes some getting used to due to Skull Cracker’s century-long cast time and flashing animation but once you get the hang of it again you should find yourself with a great deal of success.

You can find the full write-up on Into the Mists here: http://intothemists.com/guides/2198-skullcrackers_revenge

One of the best things about this is that, while Crack->Hundi is the biggest threat of the build, it can still stand on its own. You still have pretty good sustained DPS and excellent survivability even if you disregard the main gimmick of the build.

Be wary that some of the Into the Mists items aren’t displayed correctly (namely the Cavalier’s Mace showing a huge crit damage boost and the lack of Sigil of Paralyzation.)

Here’s some recent footage of this build in action in the Obsidian Sanctum. These are all duels using a slight variation of what I have spec’d out in the guide (but I do go over the variation in the equipment section.) I’m using Lyssa Runes with no food or oils. (I later put on +7% poison duration food because there were Deluxe Burgers in the arena. :P)

Unfortunately I get my kitten kicked by Sword/Dagger + Shortbow Thieves with huge Poison uptimes. My excuse is that I’ve pretty much never gone against those in a structured environment so I was not at all prepared for them. (Also Condi Reduction Runes and Food would’ve been way better than Lyssa Runes against Poison and Larcenous Strike.)

But yeah, that’s how I’ve been roaming this month. Hopefully you guys will find some pleasure in the delicious tears that come from winning fights with this.

Virelion.4128:

It isn’t about “warrior will not be able to kill anyone”, warrior has easy and hard counter to any build/class burst for any of this combos (Endure Pain against direct dmg, and Berserker Stance against conditions), insane CC and insane regeneration (300 healing power and full adrenaline -> 900hps (andrenal & signet) and really hard dmg with it. It shouldn’t never happened.
Warrior now is the easiest class to play because you can do so many mistakes.
As a warrior you can miss your burst skill and there is no punishment (of course you have cd, but your adrenaline is still up).

Poison.

Calling BS on this. The Warrior is the one with the OP build that magically gave her excellent game sense: she never would have wasted her evades, would have used a defensive cooldown to perfectly mitigate the Elementalist’s burst, and only would have entered the control combo knowing the Ele had used her dodges and at least one of her defensive cooldowns.

No skill required.

I’m a Warrior since pre-launch. How do you think I feel?

Worst thing is, Warriors were only legitimately OP for 3 months of it.

Good post, very informative. If I worked for ANet I’d give you guys +2% damage to Bleeding Foes on your Burning Retreat just for this.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

Most people are just bad at games and blame the game design rather than their own skills.

Quoted for truth. Elementalist at the current moment have an absolutely amazing kit: mobility, damage mitigation, self-healing, and burst damage. The problem is that most of the Ele community is still singing the ‘oh poor me Elementalists are such trash’ song.

Remember, people, it took weeks before anyone realized that Warriors were really really strong after they got buffed. All it’s gonna take is one high-level Elementalist player with a cool frag video to make the masses realize that Ele’s are back in business!

Thief from STAB.

I’m trying to say “Good fight.”

JudgeD.5673:

Good fight with that Mag ele north of Aldons. Nice to see Mag has at least one solo roamer, a refreshing change from all the 2-6 man groups I usually see from Mag (and FA as well).

I spent the past 4 hours solo roaming on my Warrior.

I was lagging almost the entire time though, and found that it’s really hard to hit Skull Cracker when you’re constantly rubberbanding.

I haven’t logged into WvW pretty much at all this week. Anything worth mentioning?

Neither Warrior nor Thief were ever really OP.

Warrior does, however, have a pretty newbie-friendly kit so it’s not super hard to be adequate with them. But the skill ceiling is pretty high. It’s kinda like Terran in Starcraft.

ArmageddonAsh.6430:

…you look at Ele due to everything they had (all the above) they had nearly ALL of it nerfed…

Last patch put D/D eles back on the map. Pick yours up again and you may just enjoy it. They actually counter Warriors pretty good, too.

Don’t forget your Christmas spirit!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18koyj_magxmas2013_videogames

Alternate link: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18koyj_magxmas2013_videogames

Merry Christmas from all your friends on Maguuma! <333

If you’re in the US or Germany, it’s probably blocked for you. Here’s a Dailymotion instead:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18koyj_magxmas2013_videogames

Merry Christmas from all your friends on Maguuma! <3333

EDIT: American and Germany people can view it here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18koyj_magxmas2013_videogames

This is last week’s thread, Paralbad.

Bass.1697:

I like the part where you show your server exploiting in the picture as well.

I missed that, can you circle it for me?

dreztina.4820:

The scrubs are finally beginning to understand why the only enjoyable thing to do in this matchup is zerg bust.

And forum entertaining.

Unlike my server butts, fart server(s):
[ X ] Is terrible in 1v1’s and/or has bad roamers.
[ X ] zergs / blobs 24/7.
[ X ] always hides in their towers when against equal numbers.
[ X ] has spies and siege saboteurs amongst our ranks.
[ X ] always allies with doo-doo server to 2v1 my server.
[ X ] complains about my server pee, when we never complain about them.
[ X ] butts server only does PvD.

I’m still enjoying Mace+Shield/Greatsowrd even after the Unsuspecting Foe and Skull Crack nerfs. I just did a write-up on Into The Mists today.

http://intothemists.com/guides/2198-skullcrackers_revenge

Tricare.2946:

For you YB and SBI, this is how it looks when you can actually fight outnumbered and still win.

You clearly were fighting only uplevels and the worst that YB and SBI had to offer. They were on alts. The sun was in their collective eyes. 1v1 them. Looks at the scoreboard. I don’t see how that’s relevant to this game mode.

Bass.1697:

Everything in this forums is anecdotes or crying.

False. Yak’s Bend is scientspifically proven to run from 10v1 fights. I have the data to prove it right here:

Bass.1697:

Haven’t seen a mag roamer yet that has heard of a fair fight so don’t cry about outnumbered people using siege to even things up.

Sweet anecdotes, bro.

Tachii.3506:

Gold league with blobs 24/7? Sounds legit.

There was always someone willing to fight and only Blackgate had tower heroes.

StealthSnake.9134:

Not how it was started, but sure.

Shrug That’s what I was told.

I have to assume it doesn’t have a condition because the 3rd strike is a 5-target AoE instead of a 3-target cleave.

Merrikk.6790:

Why do people call it the north-north camp, when it can simply be called the north camp? I’ve heard people call the south camp the south-south camp also. Just curious.

“South South” used to be called “South Supply” and abbreviated “SS.” People started to assume “SS” stood for “South South” and just mimicked it with “North North.”

Attention Yak’s Bend and SBI.

There is a subset of Maguumies who plan on playing for PPT tonight.

If you beat them please brag as much as humanly possible and mock them for being bads and trying to play for PPT despite not playing for PPT.

Your friend,
Deany Kong

Yaks and SBI people

I’m not trying to insult you

Accept my party invite

I wanna talk about builds.

If you’re going to make one final push tonight, Maguuma is going to be busy starting at 8 PM EST. We’re going to be recording our Christmas Special.

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That’s not a ruse.

gidorah.4960:

they are only 3rd because mags and yb are 2v1ing them and goon sent its spies to waste their supply and break golems

Your logic is flawed. That would imply anyone would ever want to work with Maguumies.

Even Maguumies don’t like playing with Maguumies.

Cinder.2056:

And you guys sure are very good at bring that 80 man blob into a single keep.
Oh btw, both keeps in your bl are paper.

Cool! Looks back at the scoreboard….I don’t see how that has any relevancy to this game type.

This thread was moving so slow in the beginning of the week. Suddenly Maguuma takes first place and the post velocity almost triples!

Terravos.4059:

So either our population dropped from fairweather’s doing PVE, Or you had a bunch of fairweather’s log into the game.

Maguuma doesn’t have fairweathers. The people who log in on Friday are the same people who log in on Tuesday.

Is Maguuma in first place yet? Can I start using our PPT to justify any fights I lose now?

Cool! Looks back at the scoreboard….I don’t see how that has any relevancy to this game type.

Caroline.4987:

Maybe if you try the Savage Leap with swiftness on. I think it goes further that way. And Engineers generally have an even bigger leap.

If you time it right you can Savage Leap after a jump and if you switch weapons right at the end of it you’ll keep your momentum. It makes for some pretty impressive Charrkour.

Dat ridiculously blatant cap of fully upgraded Yak’s Garrison.

The problem with this, and just about every single other “anti-zerging” feature is that the large groups also benefit from this. This wouldn’t prevent zerging, it would just make supply easier to access for everyone.

He posted a screenshot proving you wrong. If anything I’d say he didn’t try nearly hard enough.

I was soloing a supply camp and it hit me like a ton of bricks with “Hey, Deany Kong, you’re really dumb” written on them.

The WvW Defense Against Guards ability gives you retaliation. Doi.

False alarm, no spooky Retal ghosts here.

For the past few weeks I’ve been noticing that I’ll sometimes randomly gain retaliation while in combat. Even when completely untraited and having no allies in the world near me. It only seems to happen on my Warrior.

The last time I saw it happen I was wearing Berserker gear with Hoelbrak runes, cavalier’s trinkets, and a Mace/Shield + Greatsword weapon set. I was completely untraited at the time.

Has anyone else noticed this happen? I haven’t had the opportunity to try to get a consistent repro on this.

ParaldaWind.4523:

Some footage of last night.

<SNIP>

Highlights include: hiding on second floor of SM to let it get capped in order to finish our achievements, and Deany being Deany.

I was wondering where I was getting all these views from.

Don’t forget to check out grub around 22:22 and the sweet 1v1 at 27:00.

Defektive <3

Pinko.2076:

Quells.2498:

TC dying server

ctrl+t

um why are you making me open a new tab !!

HE’S TARGETING YOU! HE’S GONNA ZERG BUST YOU! RUN!

You people need to stop declining my party invites. I’m just trying to say good fight.

Sovereign.1093:

^…,,,.^ what? we has no queue at ocx and sea.

Chibi TC =^___________________________________________^=

Sovereign.1093:

^.^ tc is a small server

11/10 ruse

Maguuma has already gone to bed. See you all next week!

transtemporal.2158:

Lol Mag. The thing is, you’re probably proud of yourselves doing what you’re doing.

BUT YOU’RE STILL LOSING, so the joke’s on you.

1/10, got me to reply.