Guild Wars 2

i use GS and sword/torch. Very hard to escape me. Not even using JI. No real need. With 2h reduced cooldowns, leap is frequent. You dont have immobilizes but the #5 from GS will pull and knockback, essentianlly immobilizing them for 2’’.

Still a sigil of Str would proc more than often in a 40-50% crit setup. Its well worthing in imo, if u want extra damage plus healing due to AH trait.

But the above toon is the definition of juggernaut. Missing out none. Decent power, might procs, good crit change, excellent HP, high enough armor.

Im always going in the midst of 10-15 ppl while having a group of 4 to back me up and literally pushing em backwards with GS (and pulling em at the same time).

Also dont forget that when our Protection buff is enabled, we are efficiently +33% HP against all attacks (bar conditions).

Well i do have 18.5k HP and good crit and etc but that sort of HP is due to WvW buff. The actual HP is 1k lower.

Perception or Bloodlust? i guess if u have really low crit change, perception is the way.

btw sigil of accuracy doesnt add up on stats, anyone else noticed it?

short answer: you cant.

Those are warrior stats, not guardian stats.

LAG =/= FPS drop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag

Please dont destroy the language the terminology, the everything.

Warrior’s have superior damage compared with Guardians, same stats, same trait logic.

But Guardian’s survivability is unbelieavable.

I read some of the comments and while i expect that much vulnerability from clothies and medium armor users, but from heavy armor too?

My Guardian with knights and some tough/power/vitality gear, soloed a Veteran hatcher.

I wont say it was easy but it was competive. Albeit its not really designed for solo, its certainly killable, at least by certain classes with certain gear.

A very big thank you for creating two events in such a short order.

Mad King and now the even better Island with the Karkas assault on Lion’s Arch was amazing ankittenep an keen eye whats its in store for tomorrow.

I really like the fact we cut down trees on the island creating roads and camps and bridges.

One week and one month and one year from now, we gonna tell new people that “That wasnt like that when we first set foot on the island, there was a forest there, where the road now is”.

Carry on guys!

still, cant put in the collectibles. but im sure they will add a placeholder in the collectible bank in the near future.

Nosleep’s and Fixeon’s advice look sound, ill give a go on a pistol/dagger combo (albeit i really do like melee).

Basically thats my main special ability, the death blossom, a couple of times till initiative is low, then melee and heartseeker or roll for initiative and do some more rounds of death blossom if its a strong opponent.

Still i find it hard. Even with armor and daggers right up on my lvl, its hard to stay alive in a group of mobs. This is certainly not a faceroll class as many ppl whine about.

I’ve played Warrior, Guardian to 80 and exotic sets and elementalist to 45.

So far the Thief albeit doing alot of damage is the hardest to lvl. Does it get better or should i some how adapt my playstyle?

I found that many times than not, im “forced” to use my CDs to regen initiative or heal, while on warrior or guardian or even elementalist i didnt have time to activate them because the targets would be dead by then.

Reading the advertisement from Anet about the event, it states it opens at 18th, as part of the last event.

Its the humongous female Norn boobs! I swear it is! Rich, fat milk to raise huge men! Yeah!

If u want to be support healing, the logic answer would be h.power and then any other supplementary stat.

if u wanna be tank support , u have to mix in toughness, vitality and healing power.

Correct me if im wrong but one of the most profitable crafts in the game atm is making accessories, since you can’t earn them through dungeon tokens, only Jewelcrafting alone.

With new Ascented gear and accessories, it looks like there will be no need for high lvl crafted gear any longer.

Yor thoughts?

Defintelly a Paladin-like class, with a different name.

Charr get a battle roar racial at low lvls that buffs crit and might aswell.

I think the mine that cripples + bleeds is Charr racial aswell.

Guanglai Kangyi.4318:

seithan.4823:

GS is already 3 times less damage than Warrior’s GS damage. Nerf it again and nerf it more and my options for semi-viable DPS suddenly dissapear.

There are many things to fix and many things to tweek. Survivability and damage is not one of em. Probably damage need a boost upwards.

It’s not 3x less lol. Warrior GS DPS is about 33% more than guardian GS, give or take a few, based on my numbers.

When my Warrior does 15k damage with 100b, with defence talents and same stats as Guardian, yes, its 3x times more damage (and more).

GS is already 3 times less damage than Warrior’s GS damage. Nerf it again and nerf it more and my options for semi-viable DPS suddenly dissapear.

There are many things to fix and many things to tweek. Survivability and damage is not one of em. Probably damage need a boost upwards.

Wizardauz.3761:

Punny.9210:

i dont get what you are talking . its just totally off topic

u dont play it doest mean guadian cant heal

if u are talking about pvp all my chars wearing full berzerg with full dps.

Off topic?…

im sorry i cant understand what you’re saying… please use proper grammar.

i cant understand what point your trying to make. Whether the guardian CAN heal or CANT. I know he can, its just other professions do it better. This was more the around the tactical idea of Sanctuary and Consecrations and similar immobilizing/defensive moves…

Please try and phrase your question a little better for me, no offensive intended.

Your english make little sense mate. Judge not lest ye be judged..

I have the Google Authenticator for my Android phone and the app worked perfectly. Still is.

The problem is, the windows Client doesnt ask me for an authentication code when i log in any longer. Is this normal?

~ just read the thread after my post has been merged with the others, i feel a bit less stressed right now :>

Retaliation atm is supplementary damage whenever is active. Its not game breaking ability per say and it ought to be buffed up a bit.

Mental note: WoW warrior retaliation→ fecking awesome?

Guardian class is more a defensive class even all out damage. Warrior is more oriented in damage but has good defensive capabilities – but missing out aegis block and protection buff which makes all the difference.

If you want to be master of weapons, the choise is warrior. If you wanna be a front man juggernaut, its Guardian.

In Orr and outdoors pve i roam with full zerker armor with boon duration to be able to build might and maintain it as long as possible. In Dungeons and any rough content where im called to defend my group, i go with Knights and vitality weapons, scoring around 16.5k HP.

If i wanna be a pure tank with much less damage i switch to Power/tough/vit. By why bother? Knights is the golden balance between DPS and Tanking.

Is Vitality better than DPS stats? Depends on your role in your team. If you do Arah Explorables, one member must be as tough as possible and draw aggro as much as possible to survive. But for the rest of the content, such survivability brings only diminishing returns – imo.

Swords teleport, teleports you to max available distance without the need to have a selected target.

JI teleport, also change it to work as above.

Will become valiable mobility skills.

visit any class forum. There is one whinner in every one of em.

Especially with speed buff, my feet animation goes fast as an Asuran! What gives?!

Brutaly.6257:

In pve 2h mastery doesnt improve your dps on stationary targets when using a hammer. If you want to play mobile it does, but top dps is made by spamming the chain. If the target is moving or you need to swap targets often to protect your team then 2h mastery is valid for hammer.

In pvp 2h improves practical dpd greatly imo, as long as targets are moving and/or you need to swap targets 2h adds dps.

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My point is that a might stacking build is very effective in a build that also benefits from boondurations, and i have chosen my most defensive setup for this and it works great when breechign/defending broken gates and courtyard fighting.

I have two sets of boon duration and one for might (20% increase), and 5 traits into boons, but i rarelly see over 6might stack from EM on a single target. Its usually between 4 and 6 and very rarelly goes over that.

6 might equal to 210 power increase and its an optimal scenario.

Tbh in dungeons i can get up to 11 might while lots of adds are gathered and crit is guaranteed to be, at least on one of the mobs.

The limiting factor on EM is the 1’’ internal CD. Which is very bad for both auto attack (the first two hits from GS are completed in less than 1’’) and for Whirling Wrath.

So as far as i gathered, for straight out dps, the 20% skill reduction will beat the might gathered from EM, but on the other hand EM provides both healing and damage so its more than balanced out.

My other question is, will MB give you a speed increase when using or does nothing to increase mobility while crossing terrain? Because it appears to stop for a split of a second before and after the leap.

And my latest:

CoF: Head, Gloves, Boots
Temple: Pads, Pants
TA: Chest

Dyes used: Midnight Ice and Wrath

Basically when u dodge during the 2nd hammer attack , the dodge is also cut down. like i said the heal is applied though and endurance is used aswell.. so no clue.

My question is this:

Anyone knows for sure, when you quickdodging, does dodge actually activates or gets skipped somehow? It feels like dodging gets skipped – albeit the heal from dodge “activates”, because i get damage the moment after dodge.

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Hope you like it

trait into virtues, 5 pts are more than enough so u get the blind.

aegis → use Justice to blind → use Retreat for Aegis → use Courage for Aegis → use Renewed Focus → free aegis → Justice to blind → Courage for aegis → Retreat.

On a full CD fight u can pretty much disable most of the attacks.

If you are rooted though, then GL :> Blast all Virtues and use Renewd Focus. By that time he has done 100b with Frenzy, root is out and its your game.

at least save your selfs and retreat stuck nicelly. im with 2xboon duration ( and 1x might) i go down to 9’’ before im out of swiftness and wait for CD.

If i had to choose burst weapons, it would be GS + scepter/torch. Scepter does quite a nice damage and putting down Smite , activating Zealot’s fire and using Cleansing Fire can hurt some serious kitten.

Well ofc its not 100b warrior’s GS but there arent many classes that can match a warrior’s burst.

I see, you have a point.

From a pure dps point, withi high crit change, will the 2h mastery rule over the empowering might i wonder.

Also since you are using hammer alot, do you think MB works as mobility assistant (like 2h swords “Leap of Faith” does) ? It actually covers sever meters but it also has an animation pause before and after the leap.

Which is best?

With high crit change, does empowering might comes ontop?

the only way to do thief is to block his attack in any way possible: aegis x 3 (aegis is refreshed + aegis activated + aegis from “Retreat” + aegis refreshed from Renewed Focus) and blind x 2 from the usage of traited Virtue of Justice.

This chain should bring a thief in line and in par with you if not outright do him.

Even in dps gear – prot traits, in full CD fight, this works nicelly. A setup with shouts cleansing conditions (Soldier Rune) will make things alot easier.

basically the warrior has 3 pure incapacitating CCs, which is 2 stuns and one knockback.

On the other hand, the Guardian sports just 1 incapacitating and a second one which is situational.

warrior. why? 4xCCs. and the 3 of em are AoE.

guardian 3xCC. two are aoe.

As soon as i choose a character, the loading screen never ends, world never loads and i get an error message.

On one of my chars i could log into world,but i couldnt TP nowhere afterwards.

thank you, it was pretty fast fix

Milennin.4825:

Which is why I don’t care too much for health. Not saying it’s not important, because it is. But having relatively low health isn’t that bad really. Low health with high defence makes your heals much more effective, I like that.

There isnt an issue of healing effectiveness, if anything its less effective to have low HP when you keep on healing one way or another.

Like other people posted above its worse to overheal, than never topping off.

Not topping off and stay at certain percentages, is only bad against classes/runes that will increase the damage upon you – say at 50% HP.

Other than that, having high HP is only bad for the DPS, since you have to sacrifice damage for survivability.

But i think as HP goes, not trying to compare healing perfomance or DPS output between warr and guardian, they are pretty much equal.

EDIT: in actual gameplay though protection is not always up and certainly not when you are surprised by an attack.

A 15k Guardian with protection buff running is effecting almost 20k HP.
A 17k Guardian with protection buff running is effecting 22.6k HP.

For a Guardian to go with 15k HP he only needs 20 in Honor trait line, and no HP stats from armor/trinkets.

The same goes for Warrior. To achieve the equivalent HP to equal the Guardian+Prot buff running, he needs to pick his own HP trait line.

In the end, its close to equal.

Ofcourse having more HP is always good, but to go there, you have to sacrifice alot of damage.
And the same stands for warrior.

same thing, after providing mobile authentication, it crashes

this is my error log:

edit: removed alot of info from the log because the message was too large and was getting an error.

very nice post OP, good job!