Not bad, i might change the build to 15 str / 25 arms myself. Building momentum gives you all around more than last chance, especially in higher fractals and the build is burst oriented anyway.
Did a few more fractals with the build and so far i’m enjoying it much more than the standard meta. The loss of mace knockdown is slightly annoying but not a big problem
I have been playing the the current warrior meta for some time now and i was getting seriously bored, especially with adrenalin saver part of it and annoyed about 100b being unusable in higher lvl fractals.
So i decided to try out a axe/axe + Bow/GS burst build instead with fractals and general PvE gameplay in mind.
Axe primary is a no brainer and skills are selected with axe and burst dmg in mind.
I chose axe secondary. Whirling axe hits multiple targets and you can move around really easily and dodge attacks without interuption. It also does gives you a burning finisher in combination with bow burst. I know mace is considered to be better but i never really liked it.
I’m using Bow and GS on swap depending on the situation,
Now i’m not a big theorycrafter and know the build will probably get flamed into oblivion but i find it a nice change of pace.
I’m not changing my build that i love and works fine vs all other classes just to deal with those silly OP warriors
/ THREAD
Edit : It was supposed to be just that but i can’t hold myself from saying that a single build that counters ALL OTHER CLASSES regardless of their builds, is overpowered over the edge and must be shut down not nerfed or fixed.That is what necros get to play since 6 months and they are complaining at the only class that has 50/50 chance to win against them if they are playing fairly bad.
I play a warrior/guardian/mesmer mainly but i never, ever kicked anyone from group because of their class, only for playing seriously badly, but yes i seen many “NO RANGER/ENGI” group descriptions.
It could easily be fixed if they tweaked the unwated classes a bit or simply gave them some dps group support skills.
I like it personally, after 10+ years it’s refreshing to play a MMO where DPS classes are not laughed upon when they search for dungeons/instances and stand around for hours whereas tanks and healers instantly get invited.
I won’t say it’s a perfect system but it works for me.
I’m puzzled why this board is still here while the achievements have already been moved to the Historic section ingame. Is Anet planning something perhaps?
I never quite understood why they made this thing temporary though. There would be no harm in leaving the achievements around as a permanent thing, especially as it may promote more people to try out Fractals.
Maybe because they were essntially just a duplicate of existing fractal achievements.
Condition caps seriously cripple condition based classes on bosses with large number of players. This has been a problems in past MMO’s too but i have never seen such a small cap as in GW2. I hope they raise certain caps on champs and legendary foes at least.
Guardian is easier and fun to play (IME GW2’s “easy mode”), but Ranger is fun to play as well. However, the latter requires quite a bit more practice and finesse (this is by design-Warriors will almost always be easier to play than, say, an Engineer or Elementalist.)
As far as people “sighing” when they notice a Ranger, that’s a community problem, not the players problem. A player should go for what he/she feels more comfortable with, whether it is Necromancer, Guardian, or anything else-all can be great. For some people, even though the Guardian is a great Profession, it will be boring, so they may indeed prefer Ranger gameplay-who are we to tell them that they are making “the wrong choice”?
If someone enjoys playing a ranger it’s their thing and they should by all means play a ranger but they should also be aware of where the class currently stands as far as groups are concerned.
Guardian most certanly won’t ever see a “NO GUARDIAN” description in LFG tool whereas for a ranger that’s a daily experience.
If you put all content released this year together you get an expansion’s worth of content, maybe more.
This is a joke?
No? I’m playing MMO’s since EQ more than 10 years ago and i think i have see my share of content additions and expansions over the years in most major MMO’s. Everything together added since release is more than most MMO’s get in full expansion.
Most modern MMO’s get a moderate sized expansion once a year or every two years and mini content patches every two months. In between you get bored senseless for months whereas here you get somethin to do every two weeks.
Stat dufference between a full exotic and full ascended armor is so small it’s usefull only if you do high tier fractals for the infusion slots.
That’s only if we talk about armor alone. That’s true, that of all ascended gear, it’s the least important part. If you consider the whole gear set however (Armor, weapons and trinkets), then difference is no longer that small and definitely not insignificant.
And stop acting like you deserve to have things faster just because you play 12 chars.
It’s not about “deserving to have things faster just because playing 12 chars”. It’s about ascended gear in general taking way too long to get. It is about ascended gear being an incredibly boring and irritating grind, with no good point whatsoever. For everyone, not only alt users. Having to put more work to gear more characters is not a problem. It only becomes one if the base time is so long, than gearing even a few alts suddenly becomes a matter of years (and yes, for almost everyone, except for a very tiny minority it would be a matter of years).
The talk was only about armor and armor stat difference is so small it’s laughable.
You can optimise your stats in so many ways not including ascended armor that’s it’s funny people moaning about not being able to get an addition 1% of critical damage and +14 precision for their 12 alts when they :
- don’t use food and utility food or use cheap low lvl food
- don’t optimise their build for optimal performance
- use cheap replacement for sigils and runes
- don’t optimise their skill rotations
All of wich nett MUCH more than getting ascended set of armor.
If you put all content released this year together you get an expansion’s worth of content, maybe more.
But i agree that eventually they will have to release content in bigger chunks. I really can’t picture how adding another elder dragon with Orr like worth of content would work via Living World.
Few days ago i completed fractal lvl 12 and didn’t get a bonus chest, my official level was 7 at that time. No idea why i got no chest since everyone in group got one.
Apparently zMajc does! Why else he would say that I can reach my level 80 in few days?
I don’t really care about 50. Casual content. And that wasn’t my old fractal level.
Lvl 80 is irrelevant, since you were never supposed to be on that level (and you couldn’t get to that level without either exploiting yourself or using someone else that have exploited (which in effect would make you use the exploit as well)).
What he said. Official lvl 51 – 80 fractals do not exist, therefore you’re not loosing access to something you never should have had in the first place..
Eventually they’ll be forced to make an expansion, if one isn’t allready in works. But i really like the LS content. Nothing more boring that waiting for MONTHS upon MONTHS in a static never changing world other MMO’s have have.
For example, SWTOR might have a cool story and all .. but their content patches are so far and between that takes couple of months before you see small content additions in the size of one GW2 LS. It drove me nuts personally. Even the expansion released didn’t help … most finished it it like a week or so.
Well from the new cinematic it looked to me like she’s an escaped lunatic with too much power and time on her hands. Doing random chaotic and evil things … because she can.
