Guild Wars 2

swiftpaw.6397:

These threads make me angry.

Your useless posts in this thread make me angry.
If you are not able to say anything constructive, just ignore the topic and don’t post at all!

guanlongwucaii.3162:

I don’t see the use of protection in a large number of bossfights in this game. Hammer is definitely a strong choice in fractals but the lower DPS is not worth permanent protection in normal (e.g. AC-Arah) dungeons. Protection sure as hell isn’t going to save you from a kick or swipe from Lupi.

against Lupi I see scepter/focus to be much better. Isnt’ it a bit too risky to go melee with sword? Then again, immobilize is also useful to let your party kite boss and refill their endurance.

guanlongwucaii.3162:

Focus offhand is also amazing, the 5 skill has a very wide range of utility (blast finisher/DPS/block) and RoJ is excellent for pulling a pack of mobs and stacking vuln.

I run 20 zeal so I stack vulnerability with symbols. I see your point in aggroing mobs, but often i use staff as second weapon set and it’s an excellent choice to buff team and pull mobs before the fight.

guanlongwucaii.3162:

Enemies don’t normally move around very much unless your party members are running around like morons.

How can you stay in place when Archdriven or Mai Trin are chasing you? I’m not talking about easy boss fights like AC or CoF P1, I’m talking about high end PvE.

It’s enough for WvW purpose, for PvE is way too much (i’d never go over 2,6k).

Painbow.6059:

Sword/focus does high sustained damage and is very reliable with hits, it has condition removal, 2 blinds (3 with VoJ), regen, blast finisher/3blocks/burst dps not to mention a mini blink (blinding blade).

I usually keep focus #5 for blocks, neither for blast finisher nor for burst dps and, due to its high cd, i keep it as a panic button.
RoJ also has a pretty high cd and gives just 3 sec of regen (if bounces hit allies), really not a big deal for me, its blind is good but not spammable.
The most useful things is the blinding blink and the sustained dps of course but again, I can maximize DPS gain just against static bosses where hammer support is not so needed.

Zerole.7306:

stemare.2578:

…and I still find the hammer more usefull in most situations, especially against very mobile bosses such as The Mossman or Archdiviner, as I can snare the boss on the AoE to maximize the damage letting my team mates refill their endurance, but …

What snare are you talking about? Also, I don’t use hammer for dps, it is more a utility choice if I’m using it.

For snare I mean immobilize.
The hammer has a good amount of sustained DPS with AA + SoP and MB.

Most guardians agree on the fact that sword/focus is the best DPS weapon set because sword AA deals more sustained DPS than any other weapon, granted.
Now, even if it’s the best DPS weapon, after many tries made in different contexts, I find it very situational and no way the best choice in general for PvE, let’s see why:
In normal PvE (I mean open world, trash mobs in dungeons, big groups of enemies) the GS really shines with its larger AoE, better burst and AoE pulls. I know that GS auto attack is one of the weakest we have, but 90% of the times, a single burst is enough to get down any mob group amd the AoE pull allows the team to concentrate all the damage in a single spot killing everything faster.
The sword could be much more effective against single target fights, aka boss fight, but, once again, I prefer other weapons in most cases.
Beside those bosses which have to be killed with ranged weapons, I tried the sword for a dozen times in both fractals and dungeons and I still find the hammer more usefull in most situations, especially against very mobile bosses such as The Mossman or Archdiviner, as I can snare the boss on the AoE to maximize the damage letting my team mates refill their endurance, but also for its decent support with protection and blast finishers, always appreciated in your party.
So, where the sword outclass the other weapons? Against all static bosses like CoF P1, Thaumanova Anomaly or swamp tree I find the sword to be the best choice beacuse you can maximize the profit of your high sustained DPS as you don’t need the hammer extra support and the melee fight is very possibile with low risk.

Everything is purely IMHO and would much appreciate to have a nice and civil discussion with PvE expert guardians, thank you.
Also, sorry for bad english.

I found much more usefull to go full zerk and scholar runes just against bosses or small groups.
Against large groups of trash mobs (ex. Ascalon, Dredge etc.) I’d strongly suggest to go with defensive armor (weapons and trinkets still zerk) because in high end fotm they hit pretty hard and you won’t have enough damage mitigation even with perma vigor.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

/played doesn’t work, but /age on this toon is only 82 days.. you are right, it doesn’t take very long to do it if you speed craft. I only went nuts on crafting to finish before the upcoming patch, otherwise I probably would have been working on it for a few more months.

Not having stories and all the map completions available didn’t help any.

How many hours did you actually play your character? /age should tell you.

Mmmm… no?
Maybe those are YOUR Current Guardian Builds, definitely not the most used ones.

Zacchary.6183:

Dear god! OP said something negative about GW2! What is this world coming to!?!

What’s your problem? People are just sharing their opinion and the forum is full of criticism topics.
I don’t understand the goal of your post (except trolling).

1. New PvP Mechanics
2. Heroe’s Ascent
3. In game build manager

Diablo.3570:

its pretty sad when you get killed by things half your level.

Wait… what? How do you get killed by lv 40 stuff? Did you go alone against 20-30 mobs?

It’s not a big deal to SURVIVE to another guardian, just dodge WW and any 3rd autoattack, profit.

It would be good, al long as it’s personal and no way shared with your party members.
It should definitely be an improvement tool for yourself, for testing various build and equipment, but NEVER used to catch underperformers and kick them from party.
To all the elitists: What if you were the underperformer? You would kick yourself?

/agree
Too bad engineers can’t equip this.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fixer_Upper

fodem.2713:

Nice answer lol , thief maybe ?

+1 thief

As a guardian, I actually would benefit from OOC slots because I wouldn’t be forced to open my inventory countless time to switch my weapon sets before an upcoming fight.

+1

Malediktus.9250:

I never got more than 3 from an exotic and I used to salvage plenty of them.

Fixed for me, I’m just unlucky though.

When you can’t even see one single attack from your spirit weapon and it’s already destroyed by mobs AoE.

I don’t know what kind of message you want to send to your server, but this forum already has a lot of sections and I’d be surprised that your message wouldn’t fit in anyone of them.

I don’t get the point, can’t you just post here specifying that it’s a message for your server?
That said, afaik many servers have their own web site and forum, but since I don’t know what’s your server, don’t know if it’s your case aswell.

P.S.
If you are asking for private server sections within the official forum, I think you can forget it ;-)

The only next thing i can see is… Pathfinder Online.
It’s not even a TP, but it’s the only title that cought my interest.

That said, GW2 still has a huge unexpressed potential that could keep high my interest in the game for many years to come.

I feel so sad for people still trying to craft Juggernaut nowadays.
I made it 4 months ago when doubloons cost 90s each and it was already a huge amount of farm, right now the price is over doubled, anet definitely needs to address that.

And yes i am not joking, unless they patched that the last 3 weeks, if you block while having Aegis(Block with Shelter, Protectors strike. Focus 5(whatevername it has)), Aegis will still be consumed.

Even if you dodge, and got Aegis up, aegis will be consumed.
Seems like aegis has the priority over any other damage mitigation, don’t know if it’s intended, but it’s been working that way since release.

1. Stability
2. Protection
3. Vigor
4. Retaliation
5. Fury
6. Might
7. Swiftness
8. Aegis
9. Regeneration

Since scepter #1 and focus #4 can be reflected, they should be projectile finisher (respectively 20% and 100%).
I disagree on sword #2 leap finisher and staff #2 blast finisher, it’d make much more sense to give staff #4 blast finisher.

Gongratulations to all FSP!
I onestly didn’t hope we could achieve this comeback, amazing job to all night players.

ArtemisEntreri.4138:

Shift + 1… etc

Yep, I do the same.

Thank you for the build, but I have a question: why does the current meta prefer greatsword instead of the hammer?
Isn’t the hammer more useful with blast finisher, protection and cc?

Caramel Ham.4891:

stemare.2578:

AydenStar.4216:

this game is not a serious PvP game and should have never been advertised or treated as one.

I most agree with your post, but that’s just false.
GW2 has NEVER been advertised as a PvP game by Arenanet.

False. Anet heavily advertised this game as being an esport. If they never did officially, it doesn’t matter. But in all interviews before the release of the game….they kept touting it as an esport.

They always said that both PvP and PvE would have been important in the same way, why speaking about esport would make GW2 a PvP focus game? o_O
Can’t a game have an excellent PvE and esport PvP too?
I’m not saying PvP is good as it is, far away from it, but in no way GW2 has been advertised as a PvP focus game.

Some dredge can be affected by blindness, others don’t.
Did you apply blind to a dredge having “Immune to blind” in the description?

AydenStar.4216:

this game is not a serious PvP game and should have never been advertised or treated as one.

I most agree with your post, but that’s just false.
GW2 has NEVER been advertised as a PvP game by Arenanet.

Yesterday night I had about 5 min queue to enter in an enemy borderland (I’m FSP and was trying to join FR BL).
Nothing weird here, I honestly was surprised on how short was the queue, the problem is that when I joined the map, I realised that we were just 40-50 at max (the “zerg” was actually 15-20 people + some roamers) while FR were clearly 100+!
That’s definitely weird and I suspect that queue system is someway bugged and enemy people can take our spot in the Borderland map.
Anyone else noticed something similar?

Major Headache.4827:

Roll on next week, when we can have decent hard-fought fights again, (don’t shake FR readers), and we can be rid of these plebians who know not how to win in war.

Next week we (FSP) are againts Gandara and Desolation.
They are very strong in primetime and still have the coverage for the night, onestly, i don’t think we can do better than this week.

A Big +1 to all of these points!

Pariah.8506:

The definition of class balance is the Warrior.

I thought this was well established and accepted a long time ago.

/agree
The others 7 professions are the definition of “underpowered class”.
Oh wait…

1. More PvP Mechanics (DM, CtF, KoTH etc)
2. A PvP system like GW1 Heroe’s Ascent
3. A way to switch beetween builds MUCH faster, just like GW1
4. More guild features for officers (last online, rank specific chat etc.)
5. More epic fight like Tequatl, but INSTANCED!!

Hundreds ot thousands of people are with you but still… the QQing about no endgame has won.
Also, I don’t believe they wanted to add ascended items since release.

Hello guys,
with the starting of WvW seasons me and my small guild will start to do some WvW in a group of 5-10 people, so we will focus in roaming and capping supply camps/undefended towers.
I need a build with good mobility, nice damage and still good survivability, so I’ve put down a build that seems fine to me, but I’m sure you guys can give me some advice to improve my effectiveness in our purpose.
Please feel free to give me some feedback, all your suggestion will be much appreciated.

http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fUAQNAsdWlYgiDXFSKEf4ERVh4h9AjZsjXPgIFZIA-jwxAYrAiugyeFRjtyWENWdNmyVIV9GZA-e

+1
I was waiting for Reaper’s Rumble more than anything else!

TriggerSad.2597:

stemare.2578:

TriggerSad.2597:

stemare.2578:

Honestly, I’d pump up Power a bit dropping armor or crit damage.
Also, I don’t like sword/focus that much :P but it’s personal and I know most of guardians love it.
That said, you will get the job done anyway.

Well, I mainly use stat-types that mainly focus on Power, the only exception being the Cavalier trinkets. I could switch those out with Soldier trinkets, but I don’t see a reason to do so tbh.

You can always drop some valkyrie pieces for berserk and put soldier trinket instead of cavalier.
Also, scholar runes instead of eagle ones.

I personally find Eagle runes more reliable in terms of its damage multiplier. In essence I know I can have the +10% damage bonus from Scholar a lot longer, and that I can have it deal more damage to multiple sources. Still, as I said before, I’m still not an expert at avoidance, so I do see myself at around half health constantly, meaning I wouldn’t have Scholar up that frequently.

Your crit chance is already pretty high, if you ar not confident with scholar runes, i’d suggest you to go with runes of the ogre or just ruby orbs.

TriggerSad.2597:

stemare.2578:

Honestly, I’d pump up Power a bit dropping armor or crit damage.
Also, I don’t like sword/focus that much :P but it’s personal and I know most of guardians love it.
That said, you will get the job done anyway.

Well, I mainly use stat-types that mainly focus on Power, the only exception being the Cavalier trinkets. I could switch those out with Soldier trinkets, but I don’t see a reason to do so tbh.

You can always drop some valkyrie pieces for berserk and put soldier trinket instead of cavalier.
Also, scholar runes instead of eagle ones.

Honestly, I’d pump up Power a bit dropping armor or crit damage.
Also, I don’t like sword/focus that much :P but it’s personal and I know most of guardians love it.
That said, you will get the job done anyway.

ensoriki.5789:

Look at sports like football, soccer, handball & hockey. If keg brawl was one present at a time with different maps & prof skills for the non-runners it probably rival conquest.

Ohh how I would love keg brawl with organized teams

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

stemare.2578:

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

TDM – Can’t work in this game as it is currently structured. Like Eura pointed out, 5 thieves + shadow refuge, then 3,2,1,SPIKE and no matter what you do there is an auto down followed by a high probability stomp and the TDM is over. The thief heavy team would just burst down opponents 1 by 1 and there would be no counter for it.

It definitely could work. Do you know heroes ascent from GW1? I really whish anet builds something like that, and if they put a conquest map as first, a 5 thieves team would be blown away by any other team (with a brain) and wouldn’t even get to the TDM map.

For a good long while the wall paper on my computer was a screenie I took while holding HoH, so yeah, I know HA.

Think about the cheese that HA had to endure over the years. IWAY, Blood Spike, Orb Spike, SWAY… too many others to waste the time cataloging them here. If they put in TDM an optimal thief heavy comp (probably 4 thieves and a bunker guard or 3 thieves a tanky DPS and a Guard) would emerge if the occurrence of the TDM was predictable (like the first match in HA was predictable).

I like the play of a TDM match too (in other games), but this combat system with teams of 5 would require secondary objectives to split the teams which makes it not really TDM anymore. There is just too much damage for a pure 5v5 TDM to work.

Aegis, blind, staying with your back on a wall, some side mechanics that reveal stealths etc. there could be many ways to counter a thief spike, no counting that clearly requires a PERFECT coordination to be effective, much more than GW1 spikes beacuse GW2 has dodges with no cast time.
People just have to learn how to counter, in the same way we learned to counter blood spike, contagionway, zerg or any other effective build.

Myrmidian Eudoros.4671:

TDM – Can’t work in this game as it is currently structured. Like Eura pointed out, 5 thieves + shadow refuge, then 3,2,1,SPIKE and no matter what you do there is an auto down followed by a high probability stomp and the TDM is over. The thief heavy team would just burst down opponents 1 by 1 and there would be no counter for it.

It definitely could work. Do you know heroes ascent from GW1? I really whish anet builds something like that, and if they put a conquest map as first, a 5 thieves team would be blown away by any other team (with a brain) and wouldn’t even get to the TDM map.

I suggest you to go with a staff as secondary weapon, it sould be helpfull to have some swiftness (skill #3) to run faster around the maps.
You can always switch to your scepter/focus against hard skill points or bosses.

Knighthonor.4061:

stemare.2578:

Often people associate raid concept with gear treadmill of traditional MMOs, that’s where most of hate comes.
Personally I’d love to see introduced some raid content in GW2 as far as it doesn’t turn in a farm to obtain a specific item.

Yet people are farming these champs the same reason as people farmed Raids.

To get loot! Magic Find Magic Find, oh nice I just got thing nice item off that champion.

Oh nice I got something I can salvage for expensive mats.

Its the same thing. both grind for Gear.

Cause of GW2 philosophy, people shouldn’t farm champions for gear. 99% of them already have their exotic armor/trinket/weapon, they should farm to get money and buy cosmetic things (legendaries, specific sins, BLTP items by gem exchange etc.)
That said, with the introduction of ascended weapons (and soon armor) ANet completely broke this game philosophy and many people are farming to obtain the strongest gear possible like any other MMOs. TOO BAD.

Often people associate raid concept with gear treadmill of traditional MMOs, that’s where most of hate comes.
Personally I’d love to see introduced some raid content in GW2 as far as it doesn’t turn in a farm to obtain a specific item.

Calm down, there’s no need to yell and you won’t accomplish anything good by raising up your tone.