Guild Wars 2

Niim.9260:

Thanks to all the CD folks I had fun with tonight, chillin and hanging out with in IoJ borderlands.

It was nice seeing our long lost brother from SF

GLHF peeps. Let’s have a good week!

P1: I haven’t done it since the latest patch, but previously we had 1 person remain back to kite 1 grenadier while the rest of the party proceeded forward. I’ll take some guildies to check it out tomorrow hopefully. From everybody else’s feedback, it seems pretty broken at the moment >.>

P2: Haven’t tried it in recent times because time involved for tokens doesn’t seem worth it. It was doable before the patch but just required a good chunk of time.

P3: Just ran it and actually felt like General Whatshisname with the tracking AoE fire circles had less health than normal… Went down way faster than I’m used to. Overall feels the same, and I can speed run this in 15-20 minutes with a mesmer, 25-30 minutes without.

At the moment, P3 seems to be the only one worth doing but I’ll check out P1 soon.

TY very much players on Yaks. Cliffside on SF borderlands for a time was being defended by 3 commanders, lol [Juan| Caliga| Bronade] but then Caliga and Bronade went to EB after 6-8 hrs in SF borderlands. I think Juan stayed in SF though… I didn’t check after I went to EB as well because we were trying to get our guildies into SF borderlands and the queue was already 20+ minutes for some reason (which is confusing because it didn’t seem we had the numbers to be in a queue in the borderlands… Lots of afkers????).

Server morale however is definitely quite low, but at least my guild is trying to hustle people into there. Hope some others shall do the same.

- Terieleth, Sorrow’s Furnace, Terror Guild [TG]

Current look but you can’t see the face through the dredge helm, so I posted an older pic with the face

PvE Dungeon Build: http://www.guildhead.com/skill-calc#MmccMV0MmRGComRGCm9Mxxacsqckso

So my guild mostly does WvW, which I switch some traits around for and run mace/shield + greatsword usually, but for soloing and running dungeons, I run a complete support/boon build. Yes, your DPS becomes an almost nonfactor, but you’re built to survive and kite around mobs if you need your party to run back for something, and you’re built to easily revive allies, especially with the lovely Sanctuary skill, which I feel is underutilized. This also generates a light field (unless I am remembering something totally wrong), so if you or an ally is going down quick or you need to buy time to keep mobs off you while you revive an ally, this is a great way to buy time to heal/revive/remove conditions. Sometimes I slot Battle Presence in the Honor 30 trait slot, but I find often times my party will be half ranged/half melee so it loses utility while 2H Mastery reduces cooldown on all the staff skills, so overall I think it’s better in that situation.

I feel staff is really underutilized in dungeons and offers excellent support options for your party, but I think some people are reluctant to give up the various DPS options available to us just to equip a staff.

My gear is all vit/tough/healing, sapphire jewelry, and working on getting superior runes of the forge for my gear as well. Mace/Shield/Staff all slotted with superior sigils of water, which with the AoE autoattack of the staff does make a noticeable difference. I’m still working on a good PvP build/DPS build, but this has been working fine for dungeons, WvW, and soloing. Tome of Courage is an amazing elite skill but as I’m sure many of you know, just making sure to protect yourself while it’s up sometimes is an issue.