Why dont you just pretend you came up with 30/25/0/0/15 or go through and take the best dps traits. You will end up with the same build. Then you can say you arent using someone elses build. :p
Or alter one trait and say its yours. Problem solved.
They mentioned it on the stream. Which was a preview.
“Higher level fractals will drop fractal weapons in a container, allowing you to pick them. Fractal weapons are now skins instead of just weapons with no stats that force you to use a transmutation stone on them. "
I think warrior buffs should be used. Ive done a few vet giant dps tests before and most classes sit around 21 seconds when only using their own buffs. Warrior is faster because of banners. In a group you will always have banners and fury so I think its fair to use them for consistancy. And like keyz said, raising the crit chance reduces inconsistancy on bigs hits failing to crit.
Whirling axe when hitting 5 targets is less total damage than axe auto hitting 3 targets for the same duration. Axe 5 is always a dps loss. Never use axe 5, its awful.
Not sure if this is accurate. Based on Wiki numbers using 3k power against 2500 toughness and no extra coefficient modifiers to keep this somewhat simple:
Whirling Axe appears to be considerably better but my math or the wiki may be off somewhere. WA also gives more adrenalin and crits in the same time period.
Just using the base damage of each attack listed on the wiki a full auto attack chain deals 1764 damage. Compared to whirling axe doing 1005 damage to a single target.
So when cleaving we get 1764 * 3 = 5292 total damage from one rotation.
Whirling axe on 5 targets gives 1005 * 5 = 5025 total damage.
One auto attack chain is pretty much the same duration as whirling axe. So yeah axe auto is better even when hitting maximum number of targets for both attacks.
PS. When it says something like (15x): 1,005. It means it deals a total of 1005 damage over 15 hits.
Passive is useless in pve and i suspect the active will be bad for trash mobs because it sounds like single target. Will be good for group dps increase on bosses especially under timewarp. The real question of whether this becomes viable is if the healing is decent on the active and its instant cast. If its not instant cast then the healing has to be very good for it to be worth it for me. Also depends on how long the active lasts. Theres so many ways this skill could turn out as a massive dissapointment. If the passive turns out to be siphon on hit then they avoid most of those problems.
If you learn the encounters, most fights should be entirely doable in zerk on your own. There are a few fights where if people arent in melee with you it makes it harder. Or if the dps is low then you are going to have a hard time (slave driver). Id suggest watching videos and looking out for tells more closely when playing. Also knights is fine for when you are learning. Just be prepared to move on to zerker eventually if thats what you want.
Scepter, offhand dagger, warhorn and focus are all pretty well designed. Spinal shivers on focus could do with a cast time reduction though (or a base damage buff to make it worth the cast time).
Dagger mainhand is pretty good apart from the 2. It could do with some improvement to damage at the very least.
Staff use to be alright for utility when putrid mark worked on allies. Now id say it falls short quite a lot. I also feel the base damage of the marks is a bit lackluster. Comparing it to ele or mesmer staff and you kind of see what I mean with low damage.
Axe is awful. The auto attack is weak and not even that great for vuln stacking. The 2 is weak and it only hits one target. The 3 is alright but it really should be a blast finisher.
I planned to do my achieves for this eventually. Still havent and I cant really see myself convincing anyone to tag along. I have 16 aether keys sitting in the bank.
Im on EU so theres no chance of tagging along with either of you. :<
39 is ruined by the fact that you cant dodge or block the explosions. It was really frustrating on cliffside because theres no way you can get away from the corpses in time all the time when trying to destroy those seals. If it was dodgable id say it would be a pretty good instability.
There is no way to say whats good and whats bad. In pve anything but close to the maximum dps builds is bad but in pvp/wvw its down to trait choices and how much you are willing to sacrifice for what you want. I believe in wvw people try to keep a certain level of armour and then maximise damage on top of that, its not really possible to do it the other way round. :P
You shouldnt be building around a balance of stats. You should be building around what you want to do and what traits you want. If you are talking about pve you should be going full dps though. So beserker.
Thats 10/30 traits. And I may have missed some. Theres also plenty of traits which effect crit chance and they arent in precision lines either. Most builds sit around at 30% crit chance or higher so having crit traits in non crit lines is perfectly fine. But I will kind of agree that maybe not as a minor because then you cant take an alternative.
If they are going to stop selling then they need to nerf champ farming and buff dungeon rewards. They should do that anyway. Only way to compete with champ farmers is to sell dungeons. Obviously playing the TP is the best way to make gold, but im far to lazy to do that boring kitten for gold.
Going energy sigils instead of force on the offhands is way better than endurance food. The food increases your dps much more than having slaying + force. Even with slaying + night and endurance food its less dps than force and curry butternut squash soup.
So if you need either energy sigils or endurance food always go with energy sigils. They are better and they minimise the dps loss compared to endurance food.
It wouldnt need in icd. Forceful gs doesnt have an icd. The same goes for all vuln on crit traits on other classes. None of them have an icd, they are just short duration might/vuln stacks.
Attack is a useless number they created from power and precision. It has no relation to damage dealt or dps. It should be removed as it creates misinterpretation of stats (you can create a very low dps build and it will have the same or close to the same attack as a fully offensive optimized build). I have no idea why they added it because its not actually used for anything formula wise ingame.
What you are asking for is impossible to answer because the attack stat has no real correlation to damage done.
If you want to compare builds of the same class, using the same weapons. The best way is to calculate effective power. This can be done using your own calculations or on http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/
Whirling axe when hitting 5 targets is less total damage than axe auto hitting 3 targets for the same duration. Axe 5 is always a dps loss. Never use axe 5, its awful.
To answer op. Mace is a lot better for trash because it has cc and aoe and extra vuln. Its also good for easy bosses where the extra vuln helps. However on more difficult bosses i prefer to use sword for impale/rip and the block. If you run with multiple warriors the rip wont stack so keep that in mind if you are all using offhand sword on a boss.
Another issue is that the firestorms enraged stacks act just like the shamans shield (only removes 1 stack per skill). Whereas the molten beserkers enrage stacks are removed per hit. Id like to know if the buggy stacks is intended on both the imbued shaman and the firestorm. Or if the bug is that the beserkers stacks are too easy to remove.
You want fgj because you want it for the effigy. If you can do gate without balanced stance then you can take signet of might as well as fgj. You risk getting interrupted by the firestorm by doing that though.
Energy sigils on each offhand is pretty much a must on necro. In a group you can do without endurance food but if going solo endurance food helps alot.
We did it by using a mesmer to solo trigger the shield phases with phantasms (doesnt trigger bloodlust on mesmer). Then we burst the eles with guard using shield of avenger, 2 warriors bursting as much as they could and then me going rampager necro and epidemic + well of darkness to nuke. The final shield was incredibly painful and involved a lot of kiting of eles and if we had bad luck it would cause a wipe cause we couldnt kite them long enough for bloodlust to reset. The advantage of a condi necro in this instastability is you can burst some bleeds and epidemic and then leave them to tick while you wait for bloodlust to reset.
They did it to prevent mimic. Even though when mimic was reported as an exploit they said it was fine and smart use of mechanics. Nice bait and switch by anet.
The camera issues on the volcanic and solid ocean fractals need to be fixed asap. Incredibly frustrating and obviously a major bug. The other things im not too bothered about as long as they get addressed eventually.
